In vain from her stag-eyes "the big round tears

Coursed one another down her innocent nose";

In vain her tongue wept sorrow in their ears;

Though there were some felt willing to oppose,

Yet when their heads came in their heads, that minute,

Though 'twas a piteous case, they put her in it.

XIII.

And when the sack was tied, some two or three

Of these black undertakers slowly brought her

To a kind of Moorish Serpentine; for she