A tiger-flash—yell, spring, and scream: halloo!

Death 's out and on him, has and holds him—ugh!

But ne trucidet coram populo

Juvenis senem! Right the Horatian rule!

There, see how soon a quiet comes to pass!

VIII

The youth is somehow by the lady's side.

His right-hand grasps her right-hand once again.

Both gaze on the dead body. Hers the word.

"And that was good but useless. Had I lived,