‘Bah!—bother!—blarney!—What is this about?’

“Love, lover, longing, in an instant fled,— 380

Now I had vice and impudence to dread;

And all my high-wrought fancies died away

To woman’s trouble, terror, and dismay.

“‘What,’ said the wretch, ‘what is it you would have?

Would’st hang a man for peeping in a grave?

Search me yourself, and try if you can feel

Aught I have taken—there was nought to steal:

’Twas told they buried with the corpse enough