The maiden she smiled, and in jewels array'd her,

Of thrones and tiaras already dreamed she;

And proud was the step, as her bridegroom

convey'd her

In pomp to his home, of that high-born ladye.

"But whither," she, starting, exclaims, "have

you led me?

Here's nought but a tomb and a dark cypress

tree;

Is this the bright palace in which thou would'st