We set up a shout at her screaming,
We laugh'd at the fright she had shown
At the sight of the head of her minion--
How she'd tremble to part with her own !
" We had taken the head of King Capet,
We called for the blood of his wife;
Undaunted she came to the scaffold,
And bared her fair neck to the knife.
As she felt the foul fingers that touch'd her,
She shrank, but she deigned not to speak:
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