While I clung tighter to his heart and press’d him,

And did not fear him, though my heart was broken,

But kiss’d his poor stain’d hands, and cried, and bless’d[710] him!

Then, Nan, the dreadful daylight, coming cold

With sound[711] of falling rain—

When I could see his face,[712] and it look’d old,

Like the pinch’d face of one that dies[713] in pain;

Well, though we heard folk stirring[714] in the sun,

We never thought to hide away or run,

Until we heard those voices[715] in the street,