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Sent from the bosom of the night To harbinger the morning light.

Again they parted: she to brood O'er dreaming hopes in solitude, And every pitying saint to pray For on the battle day. And he no longer deem'd the field But death to all his hopes could yield. To other, softer dreams allied, He thought upon the warrior's pride. But as he pass'd the castle gate He left so wholly desolate, His throbbing pulse, his burning brain, The sudden grasp upon the rein, The breast and lip that gasp'd for air, Told Love's shaft was still rankling there.