“They walked again among the gardens in which their childhood had strayed.
“They looked down on the eternal mirror of the lakes.
“Ah! could it have reflected the same unawakened freshness of their life’s early spring!
“The grave and contemplative mind of Lord Edward had not been so contented with the horrors of war but that it had sought also those calmer sources of emotion which were yet found among the sages of the east.
“He therefore had little in common with the ruder lords around him.
“He summoned them not to his board, nor attended their noisy wassails.
“Often late at night, in yon shattered tower, his lonely lamp shone still o’er the mighty stream, and his only relief to loneliness was the presence and song of Leoline.
“He recounted to her his trials and troubles during the war.
“And she listened to him like a child, still thinking of her absent lover, who, at that moment, had entirely forgotten her.
“Paler and paler she grew day by day.