Her heart had shuddered since the last, hot wrench

Of parting overnight. Though still her mouth

Felt the mute impress of love's sacred seal;

Though still through all her senses seemed to steal

The heavy fume of wound-wort that had hung

All night about the hedgerows--parched with drouth;

Though the first notes the missel-cock had sung,

Ere darkness fled, resounded in her ears;

Yet no hot tempest of tumultuous woe

Shook her young body. As night-fallen snow