But breathing hard at the approach of Death,

Updrawn in expectation of her change—

Camilla, my Camilla, who was mine

No longer in the dearest use of mine—

The written secrets of her inmost soul

Lay like an open scroll before my view,

And my eyes read, they read aright, her heart

Was Lionel's: it seem'd as tho' a link

Of some light chain within my inmost frame

Was riven in twain: that life I heeded not