Something there must be! What, did not appear; 190
But William’s eye betray’d the anxious fear,
The cause unseen!——
But who, with giant-stride,
Bounds o’er the brook, and is at Fanny’s side?
Who takes her arm? and oh! what villain dares
To press those lips? Not even her lips he spares!
Nay, she herself, the Fanny, the divine,
Lip to his lip can wickedly incline!
The lad, unnerved by horror, with an air