Towards morning he fell asleep, exhausted with the strong excitement; and, in that hour when, sleep being “nigh unto the soul,” visions are deemed prophetic, he dreamed.  O blessed visionof the morning, stay! thou wert so fair!  He stood again on the green sunny meadow, beneath the ruined towers; and she was by his side, with her pale, speaking countenance and holy eyes; and he kissed her fair forehead; and she turned her face towards him beaming with affection and said, “I confess it now; you are the Magician!” and pressed him in a meek embrace, that he, “might rather feel than see the swelling of her heart.”  And then she faded away from his arms, and her face became transfigured, and her voice like the voice of an angel in heaven;—­and he awoke, and was alone!

It was broad daylight; and he heard the postilion, and the stamping of horses’ hoofs on the pavement at the door.  At the same moment his servant came in, with coffee, and told him all was ready.  He did not dare to stay.  But, throwing himself into the carriage, he cast one look towards the window of the Dark Ladie, and a moment afterwards had left her forever!  He had drunk thelast drop of the bitter cup, and now laid the golden goblet gently down, knowing that he should behold it no more!

No more!  O how majestically mournful are those words!  They sound like the roar of the wind through a forest of pines!

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