There came an unexpected woe;
In vain ’gainst[9] fate we madly strove;
Each cherished hope lay scattered[10] low.
A crime had been committed in
The village where lived he and I;
And ’mid the first wild, senseless din
That marked the people’s hue and cry,
Suspicion on him[11] fell, and so,
To ’scape the frenzied, ‘vengeful mob,
He, innocent, resolved to go