All save Winona, in whose face and mien,

Unto the careless eye, no change was seen;

But one that noted might sometimes espy

A furtive fear that shot across her eye,

As in a forest, ’thwart some bit of blue,

Darts a rare bird that shuns the hunter’s view.

Her laugh, though gay, a subtle change confessed,

And in her attitude a vague unrest

Betrayed a world of feelings unexprest.

A shade less light her footsteps in the dance,