Blush’d radiance on the Eagle’s nest,

That radiant blush was doom’d to greet—

The lifeless form—of Marguerite!

The CONFESSOR,
A SANCTIFIED TALE.

When Superstition rul’d the land

And Priestcraft shackled Reason,

At Godstow dwelt a goodly band,

Grey monks they were, and but to say

They were not always giv’n to pray,

Would have been construed Treason.