CHAPTER XIII.

BLACK DONALD.

Feared, shunned, belied ere youth had lost her force,

He hated men too much to feel remorse,

And thought the vice of wrath a sacred call,

To pay the injuries of some on all.

There was a laughing devil in his sneer,

That caused emotions both of rage and fear:

And where his frown of hatred darkly fell,

Hope, withering fled and mercy sighed farewell!