Fallen is the torch they had wildly grasp’d—
Her sinking knee unto Heaven is bow’d,
And her last look raised through the smoke’s dim shroud,
And her lips as in prayer for her pardon move;—
Now the night gathers o’er youth and love!
[344] Founded on a circumstance related in the Second Series of the Curiosities of Literature, and forming part of a picture in the “Painted Biography” there described.
[345] A Greek bride, on leaving her father’s house, takes leave of her friends and relatives frequently in extemporaneous verses.—See Fauriel’s Chants Populaires de la Grèce Moderne.
THE SWITZER’S WIFE.
[Werner Stauffacher, one of the three confederates of the field of Grutli, had been alarmed by the envy with which the Austrian Bailiff, Landenberg, had noticed the appearance of wealth and comfort which distinguished his dwelling. It was not, however, until roused by the entreaties of his wife, a woman who seems to have been of a heroic spirit, that he was induced to deliberate with his friends upon the measures by which Switzerland was finally delivered.]
“Nor look nor tone revealeth aught