Will darken and gather
O’er the maiden’s name,
Who chances unwedded
To give birth to a child, and knows not its father!
One—Two—Three—Four—Five—Six—Seven—
Eight—Nine—Ten—Eleven!—
Tempest or calm—moonshine or shower,
The castle clock still tolls the hour,
And the cock awakens, and echoes the sound,
And is answered by the owls around—
And at every measured tone