Its flaming terror overhead

'Mid writhing boughs and shadows dread.

"Ah God," she cried: "that I were dead,

And laid for ever in my grave!"

Then, swooning, called on Love to save.

Among the springing fern she fell,

And very nigh to death she lay;

Till, like the fading of a spell

At ringing of the matin-bell,

The darkness left her; by a well