When through the hall Jane, trembling, passèd by

They saw, unveil’d, her brilliant sparkling eye

As round she gazed upon the chandeliers,

That here and there lit up the winding stairs;

And swords and bucklers, which had hung for years,

Seem’d coalescing, with the central vase[200]

Which saved its perfumes until then, and rose

In all its fresh and lovely fragrancy

To greet the stranger: but, Lord Arnold, he

Observing his dear Jane’s timidity