Upon her eyes. She bow'd, she slept.

She waken'd then, and waking wept.

She dream'd, perchance, of island home,

A land of palms ring'd round with foam,

Where summer on her shelly shore

Sits down and rests for evermore.

And one who watch'd her wasted youth

Did guess, mayhap with much of truth,

Her heart was with that band that came

Against her isle with sword and flame: