The record of the action fades away,
And leaves a line of white across the Alas! Prince Henry!

Sealed up in heaven, as a good deed ELSIE goes in with LUCIFER, who

FORESTER.

Is this the tenant Gottlieb's farm?

URSULA.

This is his farm, and I his wife.
Pray sit. What may your business
be!

FORESTER.

News from the Prince !

URSULA.

FORESTER.

Your daughter lives, and the Prince is well!

You will learn erelong how it all befell.

330

Her heart for a moment never failed;
But when they reached Salerno's gate,
The Prince's nobler self prevailed,
And saved her for a noble fate.
And he was healed, in his despair,
By the touch of St. Matthew's sacred
bones;

Of death or life? Though I think the long ride in the

open air,

pilgrimage over stocks and stones,

In the miracle must come in for a share!

URSULA.

Virgin! who lovest the poor and

lowly,

340

If the loud cry of a mother's heart
Can ever ascend to where thou art,
Into thy blessed hands and holy
Receive my prayer of praise and
thanksgiving!

Let the hands that bore our Saviour
bear it

Into the awful presence of God;
For thy feet with holiness are shod,
And if thou bearest it He will hear
it.

Our child who was dead again is liv-
ing!

FORESTER.

350

I did not tell you she was dead;
If you thought so 't was no fault of
mine ;

At this very moment, while I speak,
They are sailing homeward down the
Rhine,

In a splendid barge, with golden prow,
And decked with banners white and
red

As the colors on your daughter's
cheek.

They call her the Lady Alicia now;
For the Prince in Salerno made a

VOW

That Elsie only would he wed.

URSULA.

Jesu Maria! what a change!

360

All seems to me so weird and strange!