Opening the great casement window of the room in the farmhouse, Gwenfern gazed for a moment with wild eyes and quivering lips on the pale, worn face of the great conqueror, and then leaped out into the darkness.

Shambling to the casement niche, he gaped forth at the dawn.

The grassy seat beneath their casement shade The pilgrim's wistful eye hath never stayed.

With its trellised vines around the casement clinging, And the happy strain of that sweet refrain, The gentle tones of loved ones ringing, When the day's well spent, And all content.

" "O sister, sister, from the casement turning, What saw'st thou there save sunset's sullen burning?

This was evidently "a magic casement opening on the foam of perilous seas."

After the flitting of the bats, When thickest dark did trance the sky, She drew her casement-curtain by, And glanced athwart the glooming flats.

The Queen leans from the casement muttering.