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cloister in which she was on the next day to take the vows and exchange

her ordinary dress for the robe of hair-cloth and the nun's veil

Foa broke the

waves upon the gigantic boulders, and in the air was heard the sound as

of howling thunder and a roaring storm

"I will take my leave of nature and of the world,"her attendants to re the steep rocky bank of the rushing Dnieper Upon their knees

her servants prayed below, glancing up to the rock upon which they saw

the tall forht, which surrounded it

with a halo; the stars laid a radiant crown upon her pure brow, and her

locks, floating in the wind, reseel borne upon air and light and love upward to her heavenly hohtful glances of her

large eyes swept over the whole surrounding region She took leave

of the world, of the trees and flowers, of the heavens and the earth

Below, at her feet, lay the cloister, and Natalie, stretching forth her

arrave! Happy, blessed Ivan, thou

diedst ere being coffined; but I shall be coffined while yet alive! I

stand here by thy tomb, mine Ivan They have bedded thy noble for and roaring was thy funeral

knell, rave, and in the deathlike

stillness of my cell shall hear the tones of the solemn hymn hich

the impetuous stream will rock thee to thine eternal rest! Receive,

then, ye sacred waves of the Dnieper, receive thou, rave, thy wife's vow of fidelity to thee Again will I espouse

thee--in life as in death, am I thine!"