That her eyeballs made at so mortal a crash,

The Spark, call'd Vital, departed!


CCCXXXI.

Gold, still gold! hard, yellow, and cold,

For gold she had lived, and she died for gold—

By a golden weapon—not oaken;

In the morning they found her all alone—

Stiff, and bloody, and cold as stone—

But her Leg, the Golden Leg, was gone,