Plaintive again he moan’d, and with slow steps withdrew.

She is alone; she breathes again!—Fly, fly!—

Ah! wretched girl, too late! with frenzied eye,

(Scarce gone the master-fiend) his imps she sees,

Pour from the rocks, and drop from all the trees

With yell, and squeak, and many a horrid sound,

And form a living fence to hedge her round:

—“Now then,” she cried, 4 c all’s over!—oh! farewell,

Farewell, Rosalvo!” On her knee she fell,

And told her beads with trembling hands. Yet still