Now, as the twilight fell the second day,

Another mourner came: she spoke no word:

Miriam had put the key within her hand,

Turning aside, to dash away her tears:

The widowed woman went up-stairs alone.

One moment gazing on her Enoch's face,

She stoop'd to kiss it, putting back the hair,

As she had done in life: then kneeling down

She pray'd,—"forgive me,—pity me,—Oh God."

She touch'd his marble-cold, pale, hand with hers,