While Zorietto, near the wood

Where long a little cross had stood,

Was singing Vespers holy.

And now she kiss’d her Holly-beads,

And now she cross’d her breast;

The night-dew fell from ev’ry tree—

It fell upon her rosary,

Like tears of Heav’n twice bless’d!

She knelt upon the brown moss, cold,

She knelt, with eyes, mild beaming!