All pleasure and laughter were hush’d at his sight,
The dogs as they eye’d him drew back in affright,
The lights in the chamber burn’d blue!
His presence all bosoms appear’d to dismay,
The guests sat in silence and fear;
At length spoke the bride, while she trembled, “I pray,
“Sir Knight, that your helmet aside you would lay,
“And deign to partake of our cheer.”
The lady is silent; the stranger complies,
His vizor he slowly unclos’d;