VI

The rain revived me, and I leaned with pain

And saw her lying there, pale, soiled and splashed

And miserable; on her cheek a stain,

A dull red bruise, made when his mad hand dashed

And struck her to the stones; the wretched rain

Dripped from her dark hair; and her hands were gashed.--

Oh, for a musket or a petronel

With which to send his devil's soul to hell!

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