XXVIII + 

Stol’n to this paradise, and so entranced, + 

Porphyro gazed upon her empty dress, + 

And listen’d to her breathing, if it chanced + 

To wake into a slumberous tenderness; + 

Which when he heard, that minute did he bless, + 

And breathed himself: then from the closet crept, + 

Noiseless as fear in a wide wilderness, + 

And over the hush’d carpet, silent, stept, + 

And ’tween the curtains peep’d, where, lo!⁠—how fast she slept. + 