Mariana Direct

About a stone-cast from the wall A sluice with blacken'd waters slept, And o'er it many, round and small, The cluster'd marish-mosses crept. Hard by a poplar shook alway, Ceaselessly suck'd a labouring sound, By which the door was ever wound, The doors that knew no coming day. She only said, "My life is dreary, He cometh not," she said; She said, "I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!"

And then she said, "My heart is dreary, He will not come," she said; She sigh'd, "I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!" Mariana

"Mariana in the moated grange." — Measure for Measure About a stone-cast from the wall A sluice

By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Her tears fell with the dews at even; Her tears fell ere the dews were dried; She could not look on the sweet heaven, Either at morn or eventide. 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. She only said, "The night is dreary, He cometh not," she said; She said, "I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!" After the flitting of the bats, When thickest