"Florinda!"—Dreaming still he moaned,

"Ah, would that I had died, had died!

I have atoned! I have atoned!"...

And then the vision changed: O'erhead

Tempest and darkness were unrolled,

Full of wild voices of the dead,

And lamentations manifold.

And wandering shapes of gaunt despair

Swept by; and faces pale with pain,

Whose eyes wept blood and seemed to glare