Unto the forest oaks—a fearful scene

For her whose home of other days had been

Midst the fair halls of England! But the love

Which fill’d her soul was strong to cast out fear;

And by its might upborne all else above,

She shrank not—mark’d not that the dead were near.

Of him alone she thought, whose languid head

Faintly upon her wedded bosom fell;

Memory of aught but him on earth was fled,

While heavily she felt his life-blood well