We bathed her brows in wine and myrrh;—

How death-like sank at last to rest

While rose the sun! I feared to stir.

All night I heard our bridal bells

That chimed so late o'er springing corn:

Half changed they seemed to funeral knells—

She, too, had had her bridal morn!

Revived she woke. The pang was past:

She woke to live, to smile, to breathe:

Oh! what a look was that she cast,