Then my lips for a moment were crushed to hers—

"'That they found her dead in her bridal array,'"

She sang; then said, "You finish the verse!

Finish the song, for you know the way."

And I whispered "yes," for my heart had thought

Her own thought through—that life were a hell

To us so asunder.—And the blade I caught

With a sudden hand; and she leaned; and—well,

What a little wound, and the blood it brought