So stonelike was its rest!

But a peal of lordly music

Shook e’en the dust below,

When the burning gold of the diadem

Was set on her pallid brow!

Then died away that haughty sound;

And from the encircling band

Stepp’d prince and chief, midst the hush profound,

With homage to her hand.

Why pass’d a faint, cold shuddering