As one who ne'er had dwelt among the sick,

And flew at all she met, as on her foes;

But no one ever heard her speak or shriek,

Although her paroxysm drew towards its close;—

Hers was a frenzy which disdained to rave,

Even when they smote her, in the hope to save.

LXVIII.

Yet she betrayed at times a gleam of sense;

Nothing could make her meet her Father's face,

Though on all other things with looks intense