The very instant, till the change that cast
Her sweet face into shadow, dull and slow,[DY]
Glazed o'er her eyes—the beautiful, the black—
Oh! to possess such lustre—and then lack!
LXX.
She died, but not alone; she held, within,
A second principle of Life, which might
Have dawned a fair and sinless child of sin;[DZ]
But closed its little being without light,
And went down to the grave unborn, wherein