Some gorgeous canopy, and, thence, unroost

It's present bedfellows the bats—and thou

Shalt slumber underneath a velvet cloud

That mantles o'er the couch of some dead Countess.

[Exit Carl and Ulric.

Josepha (sola). It was my joy to see him—nothing more

I should have said—which sent my gush of blood

Back on my full heart with a dancing tide:

It was my weary hope's unthought fulfilment,

My agony of mother-feelings curdled250