Perfect and undisturb’d repose, alike

Of corporal powers and inward faculty.

Wakeful the while he lay, yet more by hope

Than grief or anxious thoughts possess’d, ... though grief

For Guisla’s guilt, which freshen’d in his heart

The memory of their wretched mother’s crime,

Still made its presence felt, like the dull sense

Of some perpetual inward malady;

And the whole peril of the future lay

Before him clearly seen. He had heard all;