Or any worlds; we for ourselves will live—
Return, oh! speak, consent!”
Aldona spoke not;
And Konrad, silent, waited yet reply:
Meanwhile the blood-red dawn shone forth in heaven.
“O God! Aldona, morning is before us,
And men will wake: the guard arrest us here.
Aldona!”—called he, trembling with despair.
No voice was his; beseeching with his eyes,
He lifted to the tower his claspèd hands,