The hour is near, and vengeance due;

It cannot, and it will not fail,—

'Tis but a step to Borrowdale!

Why shouldst thou love and follow me,

Poor faithful thing? I pity thee!

Up rose the Lady Isabelle,

I may not of her motion tell,

Yet thou may'st look upon her frame;

Look on it with a passing eye,

But think not thou upon the same,