XXI.

When thus her face was given to view— Although so pallid was her hue, It did a ghastly contrast bear To those bright ringlets glistering fair— Her look composed, and steady eye, Bespoke a matchless constancy; And there she stood so calm and pale, That, but her breathing did not fail, And motion slight of eye and head, And of her bosom, warranted That neither sense nor pulse she lacks, You might have thought a form of wax, Wrought to the very life, was there; So still she was, so pale, so fair.