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

Open and passive to the influxes

Of outward sense, his vacant eye was there, ...

So be it, Heavenly Father, even so I