But scarce believing her yet slumb’rous eyes—

’Til, opportune, the wardrobe glass disclosed

The doubtful myst’ry; then she grew composed,

Alighted venturously on the soft floor,

And scann’d the toilet o’er and o’er and o’er:

She timorously removes[202] the window-blind;

Observes, with pleasure, the fantastic hind,

The antler’d buck, the mother and her fawn;

And all the beauties of the verdured lawn.

The ivy tendrils kiss’d her window-pane,