With here and there a pearl, an emerald-stone,

A golden clasp, clasping a shred of gold.

All else had perished—save a nuptial ring,

And a small seal, her mother’s legacy,

Engraven with a name, the name of both—

“Ginevra.”

There then had she found a grave!

Within that chest had she concealed herself,

Fluttering with joy, the happiest of the happy;

When a spring-lock, that lay in ambush there,