Blood-boltered at her feet! With groan on groan

His breast Apollo-like doth heave and rise,

And ghastly pale his cheek, and glaring white his eyes.

XII.

With one wild shriek of agony she fell

Upon the floor the casement-ledge beside;

And swooned so deep, that but for Isabel

Close within earshot, aidless she had died.

But reached that voice, so piteously it cried,

Salustian’s inmost soul, and called him forth