And she, the lonely widow,

XVI.

And she, the lonely widow,

Soiling the virgin snow wherein God hath

Enrobed his angels,—and with absent eyes

Hearing of Heav'n, and its directed path,

Thoughtful of slippers—and the glorious skies

Clouding with satin,—till the preacher's wrath

Consumes his pity, and he glows and cries

With a deep voice that trembles in its might,