Another, smaller than the rest,

Sighed, “Love, love,” o’er and o’er.

And one said, “Pity my sad plight!”

So Curtius’ passion pleaded all the night.

Eulalia waking in the morn,

Large-eyed, sat up in bed,

While vows the tend’rest that be sworn

Still whispered in her head;—

A dreamy bliss her soul possessed,—

She rang for Betty; and before she dressed,