Turned abruptly--like a timid

Fawn she hurried from the chamber.

Like a man who, long accustomed

To the gloom and damp of dungeons,

Seems bewildered when beholding,

For the first time free fair Nature:

"Hast thou not, O sun, grown brighter?

Has the sky not deeper colours?"

And his eyes are nearly dazzled

By the light so long denied him: