Now wept in pain; some wretch had found a time,

Depraved and wicked, for that coward-crime;

I had indeed my doubt, but I suppress'd

The thought that day and night disturb'd my rest;

She and that sick-pale brother—but why strive

To keep the terrors of that time alive?

"The hour arrived, the new, th' undreaded pain,

That came with violence and yet came in vain.

I saw her die; her brother too is dead,

Nor own'd such crime—what is it that I dread?