Or joyous motions of awakening life;

But in the stream of light the speckled motes,

As if in mimicry of insect play,

Floated with mazy movement. Sloping down

Over the altar pass’d the pillar’d beam,

And rested on the sinful woman’s grave

As if it enter’d there, a light from Heaven.

So be it! cried Pelayo, even so!

As in a momentary interval,

When thought expelling thought, had left his mind