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Vainly opposed. Cross lay the wild'ring paths. I miss'd the road; and after many turnings, Seeing between the trees a steady light, As from a window gleam, I hasten'd to it. It was a lower window, and within, The lighted chamber show'd me but too well, We had unwittingly a circuit made Back to the very walls from whence we came.

Ah, fated, fatal error! most perverse!

But, oh! what feelings, think'st thou, rose within me? Crowded upon me like a band of fiends, When, on a nearer view, within the chamber, Upon an open couch, alone and sleeping, I saw Ulrico?

Didst thou slay him sleeping? Well may'st thou say it! I've become, sweet Margaret, Living, though most unworthy as I was, Companion of thy virtues, one, whose heart