And Love sighed, "Fancy my loss!"

So, when she died, it was scarce more strange

Than that, when delicate evening dies,

And you follow its spent sun's pallid range,

There's a shoot of color startles the skies

With sudden, violent change,—

That, while the breath was nearly to seek,

As they put the little cross to her lips,

She changed; a spot came out on her cheek,

A spark from her eye in mid-eclipse,