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Shuddering she fled to the high porch,Wide spread before our Lady's church:
And, “Here,” she cried, “my sorrows cease!
Here I may lay me down in peace,
And dying, fear no earthly foes!”
She laid her head against the door,
Her form along the marble floor;
And soon the cool refreshing shade,
And gales that swept the colonnade,
Lull'd the fair maid to calm repose:
Gay dreams were floating o'er her brain,
When startled she awoke;
And ere those visions bright and vain
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She saw advance a bridal train,
And her sweet smiles unconscious broke.
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