XXII + 

Her falt’ring hand upon the balustrade, + 

Old Angela was feeling for the stair, + 

When Madeline, St. Agnes’ charmed maid, + 

Rose, like a mission’d spirit, unaware: + 

With silver taper’s light, and pious care, + 

She turn’d, and down the aged gossip led + 

To a safe level matting. Now prepare, + 

Young Porphyro, for gazing on that bed; + 

She comes, she comes again, like ring-dove fray’d and fled. + 