The day had clos’d, she heard a sigh!

She mark’d the clear and frosty sky

With starry lustre gleaming.

She rose; she heard the drawbridge chains

Loud clanking down the valley;

She mark’d the yellow torches shine

Between the antique groves of Pine—

Bright’ning each gloomy alley.

And now the breeze began to blow,

Soft-stealing up the mountain;