It was a woman’s shriek, and ne’er
In madlier ascents rose despair;
And they who heard it as it passed,
In mercy wished it were the last.”—Parisina.
[The coincidence, or borrowing of ideas, is manifest, but the image has been amplified and beautified in the Polish poem.]
N.B.—In all the Polish words retained in the text, j is pronounced like y, and w like v.
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Lithuanian woman.