As were left me then so her lover, Hugh,

For such time breathed as it took one to tell

How she forever, deemed false, was true!

He'd have known how it was, "For, you see, in groping

For the puny spring of that panel—hoping

And fearing as nearer and nearer grew

The boisterous scramble—why, out she blew

Her windy taper and quick—in this chest

Wary would lie for—a minute, mayhap,

Till the hurry all passed; but the death-lock pressed