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The Bride beheld, and wondering ask'd her, “Why“So little pleasure gemm'd her beauteous eye?”
As mute she stood—with stern and glaring eyes
Lord Arno enters:—“Why this wild surprise?”
Thundering he said:—“Lord Lucca's host is fled,
And he himself lies weltering with the dead!”
They heard—the lovely Bridesmaid and the Bride;—
They heard;—the latter fell upon her side:—
The shock was mortal!—Wonder and affright
Closed her blue eyes in death's oblivious night.
Her form Lord Arno spurn'd upon the ground:
Then stamp'd the floor:—a Herald heard the sound.
“Take this maid!—Yon ivied tower
“Shall be to me a lover's bower.”
The Herald heard;—he raised the shrieking maid;
And to the ivied tower her angel form convey'd.
The Fall of the Leaf | ||