The dreary waste we roam.

"But I must go—these towers to save;

Beneath the evening shade,

I haste to seek Earl Osrick's pow'r,

And call Lord Redwald's aid."

He said—and turn'd his ready foot;

The abbess nought replies;

But, with a look that spoke her grief,

To heaven upcast her eyes.

Then, turning to the stranger dame,