Or is it all a vision now?

XXXIV.

At length, with Ellen in a grove

He seem’d to walk, and speak of love;

She listen’d with a blush and sigh,

His suit was warm, his hopes were high.

He sought her yielded hand to clasp,

And a cold gauntlet[83] met his grasp:

The phantom’s sex was changed and gone,

Upon its head a helmet shone;