Upon her death-bed laid, confessing to a friend }

Her full belief, for to the hour she died }

This she profess’d——“The truth I must not hide, }

It was my brother’s form, and in the night he died. 920}

In sorrow and in shame has pass’d my time,

All I have suffer’d [follow’d] from my crime;

I sinn’d with warning—when I gave my hand,

A power within said, urgently—Withstand!

And I resisted—O! my God, what shame,

What years of torment from that frailty came.