Done to death by sudden blow, Through Azo's palace-lattice driven, XIX. Hugo is fallen; and, from that hour, Her name as if she ne'er had been- At least the knight's who died that day. Like dust beneath the coffin lid : Whether in convent she abode, And won to heaven her dreary road, Of scourge, and fast, and sleepless tears; Or if she fell by bowl or steel, For that dark love she dared to feel; She died by tortures less remote; Like him she saw upon the block, With heart that shared the headman's shock, In quicken'd brokenness that came, In pity, o'er her shatter'd frame, None knew and none can ever know: But whatsoe'er its end below, Her life began and closed in woe! (3) XX. And Azo found another bride, But never tear his cheek descended, And never smile his brow unbended; And o'er that fair broad brow were wrought The intersected lines of thought; Those furrows which the burning share Scars of the lacerating mind Which the Soul's war doth leave behind. He was past all mirth or woe: Nothing more remain❜d below But sleepless nights and heavy days, and cannot cease to flow. Still was his seal'd-up bosom haunted And cherish'd most where least reveal'd. |