Note 16 — MEMOIRS OF DOCTOR BURNEY. (continued 2)

It is written with a flow of tender but harassed sensations, so natural, so unstrained, that it seems to have been penned merely because felt; though clearly to have been incited by acute disappointment to heart-dear expectations.

I ask no kind return in love; No melting power to please; Far from the heart such gifts remove That sighs for peace and ease! Nor peace nor ease the heart can know That, like the needle true, Turns at the touch of joy and woe— But, turning—trembles too!