As fair as thing of Grecian mould.
And there were Spanish ducats too,
Scattered profusely on the floor. -
But ah! what doth his eye see more?
Why from its eager fever red
Turns now his cheek to pallid hue?
It was the chamber of the dead!
Two forms there were most terrible,
Lying beneath the farther wall, -
Two skeletons in armor dressed,
Of Spanish fashion. Was that all?
Above their forms a battered stone
Appeared to close an orifice;
Elsewhere the walls unbroken were,
Save the new rent through which his haste
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