It has been thought that there might have been an interval after the
composition of the previous Poem; and that the author resumed his task in
a more hopeful state of mind.
He now compares the words of his late farewell to the echoes of dropping
water in burial vaults, and he says that other hearts besides his own were
affected by his lamentation.
Urania reproaches him for thus distributing a fruitless grief amongst
those who had shared his sense of loss; and, exhorting him to wait with
patience for a more resigned feeling, she assures him that it will come to
his great relief--
"Abide a little longer here,
And thou shalt take a nobler leave"--
be able to speak with more confidence of their meeting again.