the orchards and groves. The night was calm, and on earth's boundary was peeping a fair morn of May. The moon having crossed the sapphirine canopy with unsteady brightness in her eye, resting now in a dark, and again in a silver cloud, was slowly dropping her quiet and lonely head, like a lovelorn and solitary maiden, who, having retraced in her mind the whole course of her life, all her hopes, enjoyments, and sufferings, at onetime weeps, whilst again a faint ray of cheerfulness beams in her eyes, till at last, bending her tired head towards her breast, she falls into a lethargy of thought.
Whilst some of the knights enjoyed the walk, the chief commander spent not his time in vain, but summoned Halban and the principal of the brotherhood from the crowd, in order to hear their advice. From the castle they hastened towards the plain, where, by the quiet waters of the lake, they wandered for some hours. The morning dawn reminded them of returning;—
