Imatges de pàgina
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The atom darkness in a slow turmoil; As when of healthful midnight sleep bereft,

Thinking on rugged hours and fruitless toil,

We put our eyes into a pillowy cleft,

And see the spangly gloom froth up and
boil:

It made sad Isabella's eyelids ache,
And in the dawn she started up awake

XLII

'Ha! ha!' said she, I knew not this hard life,

I thought the worst was simple misery; I thought some Fate with pleasure or with strife

Portion'd us happy days, or else to

die;

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Who hath not loiter'd in a green churchyard,

And let his spirit, like a demon-mole, Work through the clayey soil and gravel hard,

To see skull, coffin'd bones, and funeral stole;

Pitying each form that hungry Death hath marr'd,

And filling it once more with human soul? Ah! this is holiday to what was felt

But there is crime -a brother's bloody When Isabella by Lorenzo knelt.

knife!

Sweet Spirit, thou hast school'd my in-
fancy:

I'll visit thee for this, and kiss thine eyes,
And greet thee morn and even in the skies.'

XLVI

She gazed into the fresh-thrown mould, as

though

One glance did fully all its secrets tell;

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