But she died first!—the violet’s hue had spread
O’er her sweet eyelids with repose oppress’d;
She had bow’d heavily her gentle head,
And on the youth’s hush’d bosom sunk to rest.
So slept they well!—the poison’s work was done;
Love with true heart had striven—but Death had won.
[346] The tale of Imelda is related in Sismondi’s Histoire des Républiques Italiennes, vol. iii. p. 443.
EDITH.
A TALE OF THE WOODS.[347]
“Du Heilige! rufe dein Kind zuruck