Within a tower great and strong.
While waiting there the fatal day,
A huntsman chanced to pass along.
He saw Dom Pedro, as he passed.
"Cousin, what do you there?" said he.
The prisoner answered through the grate,
"I'm destined for the gallows tree.
"To-morrow morn I'm doomed to die,
And to the ravens shall be fed,
All for a simple word of love