The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears them never pause, but pass and die.
The Writings of George Eliot: The Spanish gypsy (ed. 1908)
The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears them never pause, but pass and die.
The Writings of George Eliot: The Spanish gypsy (ed. 1908)