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Wild pale and wonder stricken even as one	A
Who staggers forth into the air and sun	A
From the dark chamber of a mortal fever	B
Bewildered and incapable and ever	B
Fancying strange comments in her dizzy brain	C
Of usual shapes till the familiar train	C
Of objects and of persons passed like things	D
Strange as a dreamer s mad imaginings	D
Ginevra from the nuptial altar went	E
The vows to which her lips had sworn assent	E
Rung in her brain still with a jarring din	F
Deafening the lost intelligence within	F
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And so she moved under the bridal veil	G
Which made the paleness of her cheek more pale	G
And deepened the faint crimson of her mouth	H
And darkened her dark locks as moonlight doth	I
And of the gold and jewels glittering there	J
She scarce felt conscious but the weary glare	J
Lay like a chaos of unwelcome light	K
Vexing the sense with gorgeous undelight	K
A moonbeam in the shadow of a cloud	K
Was less heavenly fair her face was bowed	K
And as she passed the diamonds in her hair	J
Were mirrored in the polished marble stair	J
Which led from the cathedral to the street	K
And ever as she went her light fair feet	K
Erased these images	D
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The bride maidens who round her thronging came	L
Some with a sense of self rebuke and shame	L
Envying the unenviable and others	D
Making the joy which should have been another s	D
Their own by gentle sympathy and some	M
Sighing to think of an unhappy home	N
Some few admiring what can ever lure	O
Maidens to leave the heaven serene and pure	O
Of parents smiles for life s great cheat a thing	P
Bitter to taste sweet in imagining	P
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But they are all dispersed and lo she stands	D
Looking in idle grief on her white hands	D
Alone within the garden now her own	Q
And through the sunny air with jangling tone	Q
The music of the merry marriage bells	D
Killing the azure silence sinks and swells	D
Absorbed like one within a dream who dreams	D
That he is dreaming until slumber seems	D
A mockery of itself when suddenly	R
Antonio stood before her pale as she	R
With agony with sorrow and with pride	K
He lifted his wan eyes upon the bride	K
And said Is this thy faith and then as one	A
Whose sleeping face is stricken by the sun	A
With light like a harsh voice which bids him rise	D
And look upon his day of life with eyes	D
Which weep in vain that they can dream no more	S
Ginevra saw her lover and forbore	S
To shriek or faint and checked the stifling blood	K
Rushing upon her heart and unsubdued	K
Said Friend if earthly violence or ill	T
Suspicion doubt or the tyrannic will	T
Of parents chance or custom time or change	U
Or circumstance or terror or revenge	V
Or wildered looks or words or evil speech	W
With all their stings and venom can impeach	W
Our love we love not if the grave which hides	D
The victim from the tyrant and divides	D
The cheek that whitens from the eyes that dart	K
Imperious inquisition to the heart	K
That is another s could dissever ours	D
We love not What do not the silent hours	D
Beckon thee to Gherardi s bridal bed	K
Is not that ring a pledge he would have said	K
Of broken vows but she with patient look	X
The golden circle from her finger took	X
And said Accept this token of my faith	Y
The pledge of vows to be absolved by death	Z
And I am dead or shall be soon my knell	A2
Will mix its music with that merry bell	A2
Does it not sound as if they sweetly said	K
We toll a corpse out of the marriage bed	K
The flowers upon my bridal chamber strewn	B2
Will serve unfaded for my bier so soon	B2
That even the dying violet will not die	K
Before Ginevra The strong fantasy	R
Had made her accents weaker and more weak	C2
And quenched the crimson life upon her cheek	C2
And glazed her eyes and spread an atmosphere	S
Round her which chilled the burning noon with fear	S
Making her but an image of the thought	K
Which like a prophet or a shadow brought	K
News of the terrors of the coming time	D2
Like an accuser branded with the crime	D2
He would have cast on a beloved friend	K
Whose dying eyes reproach not to the end	K
The pale betrayer he then with vain repentance	D
Would share he cannot now avert the sentence	D
Antonio stood and would have spoken when	E2
The compound voice of women and of men	E2
Was heard approaching he retired while she	R
Was led amid the admiring company	R
Back to the palace and her maidens soon	B2
Changed her attire for the afternoon	B2
And left her at her own request to keep	F2
An hour of quiet rest like one asleep	F2
With open eyes and folded hands she lay	G2
Pale in the light of the declining day	G2
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Meanwhile the day sinks fast the sun is set	K
And in the lighted hall the guests are met	K
The beautiful looked lovelier in the light	K
Of love and admiration and delight	K
Reflected from a thousand hearts and eyes	D
Kindling a momentary Paradise	D
This crowd is safer than the silent wood	K
Where love s own doubts disturb the solitude	K
On frozen hearts the fiery rain of wine	H2
Falls and the dew of music more divine	H2
Tempers the deep emotions of the time	D2
To spirits cradled in a sunny clime	D2
How many meet who never yet have met	K
To part too soon but never to forget	K
How many saw the beauty power and wit	K
Of looks and words which ne er enchanted yet	K
But life s familiar veil was now withdrawn	I2
As the world leaps before an earthquake s dawn	I2
And unprophetic of the coming hours	D
The matin winds from the expanded flowers	D
Scatter their hoarded incense and awaken	A
The earth until the dewy sleep is shaken	A
From every living heart which it possesses	D
Through seas and winds cities and wildernesses	D
As if the future and the past were all	J2
Treasured i the instant so Gherardi s hall	J2
Laughed in the mirth of its lord s festival	K2
Till some one asked Where is the Bride And then	E2
A bridesmaid went and ere she came again	E2
A silence fell upon the guests a pause	D
Of expectation as when beauty awes	D
All hearts with its approach though unbeheld	K
Then wonder and then fear that wonder quelled	K
For whispers passed from mouth to ear which drew	S
The colour from the hearer s cheeks and flew	S
Louder and swifter round the company	R
And then Gherardi entered with an eye	K
Of ostentatious trouble and a crowd	K
Surrounded him and some were weeping loud	K
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They found Ginevra dead if it be death	Z
To lie without motion or pulse or breath	Z
With waxen cheeks and limbs cold stiff and white	K
And open eyes whose fixed and glassy light	K
Mocked at the speculation they had owned	K
If it be death when there is felt around	K
A smell of clay a pale and icy glare	S
And silence and a sense that lifts the hair	S
From the scalp to the ankles as it were	S
Corruption from the spirit passing forth	L2
And giving all it shrouded to the earth	M2
And leaving as swift lightning in its flight	K
Ashes and smoke and darkness in our night	K
Of thought we know thus much of death no more	S
Than the unborn dream of our life before	S
Their barks are wrecked on its inhospitable shore	S
The marriage feast and its solemnity	R
Was turned to funeral pomp the company	R
With heavy hearts and looks broke up nor they	G2
Who loved the dead went weeping on their way	G2
Alone but sorrow mixed with sad surprise	D
Loosened the springs of pity in all eyes	D
On which that form whose fate they weep in vain	C
Will never thought they kindle smiles again	E2
The lamps which half extinguished in their haste	K
Gleamed few and faint o er the abandoned feast	K
Showed as it were within the vaulted room	D2
A cloud of sorrow hanging as if gloom	D2
Had passed out of men s minds into the air	S
Some few yet stood around Gherardi there	S
Friends and relations of the dead and he	R
A loveless man accepted torpidly	S
The consolation that he wanted not	K
Awe in the place of grief within him wrought	K
Their whispers made the solemn silence seem	D2
More still some wept	K
Some melted into tears without a sob	N2
And some with hearts that might be heard to throb	N2
Leaned on the table and a	O2

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