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It paused one moment on her hand, Then spread its glad wings to the air. She drank the breath, as it were health, That sighed from very scented blossom; And taking from each one a leaf, Hid them, like spells, upon her bosom. Then sought the sacred path again She once before had traced, when lay A Christian in her father’s chain; And gave him gold, and taught the way To fly. She thought upon the night, When, like an angel of the light, She stood before the prisoner’s sight, And led him to the cypress grove, And showed the bark and hidden cove;