But from my couch, I rais’d my head,

And op’d mine eyes, to look once more

On what, for me, should soon be o’er,

And then I said—or thought, or seem’d

To be repeating, while I dream’d

Away my ebbing hour of breath—

To leave this all, oh this is death!

XV.

My couch was by a lattic’d door,

With diamond panes, of olden making,