II + 

His prayer he saith, this patient, holy man; + 

Then takes his lamp, and riseth from his knees, + 

And back returneth, meagre, barefoot, wan + 

Along the chapel aisle by slow degrees: + 

The sculptured dead, on each side, seem to freeze, + 

Emprison’d in black, purgatorial rails: + 

Knights, ladies, praying in dumb orat’ries, + 

He passeth by; and his weak spirit fails + 

To think how they may ache in icy hoods and mails. + 