And gave a meaning look, and stepp’d aside:
That look contained a mingled threat and prayer,
“Do take him, child, - offend him if you dare.”
The couple gazed - were silent, and the maid
Look’d in his face, to make the man afraid;
The man, unmoved, upon the maiden cast
A steady view - so salutation pass’d:
But in this instant Sybil’s eye had seen
The tall fair person, and the still staid mien;
The glow that temp’rance o’er the cheek had spread,