When at night she unloosed her sandal,

That the Fates had woven her burial-cloth,

And that Death, in the shape of a Death's Head Moth,

Was fluttering round her candle!

CCCXIX.

As she look'd at her clock of or-molu,

For the hours she had gone so wearily through

At the end of a day of trial—

How little she saw in her pride of prime

The dart of Death in the Hand of Time—