And, lingering, eyed his lovely bride,

Until he saw the starting tear

Speak woe he might not stop to cheer;

Then, trusting not a second look,

In haste he sped him up the brook,

Nor backward glanced, till on the heath

Where Lubnaig’s lake supplies the Teith.

—What in the racer’s bosom stirr’d?

The sickening pang of hope deferr’d,

And memory, with a torturing train