XL.

She hurried at his words, beset with fears,
For there were sleeping dragons all around,
At glaring watch, perhaps, with ready spears—
Down the wide stairs a darkling way they found.—
In all the house was heard no human sound.
A chain-droop´d lamp was flickering by each door;
The arras, rich with horseman, hawk, and hound,
Flutter´d in the besieging wind´s uproar;
And the long carpets rose along the gusty floor.

"The Eve of St. Agnes"
John Keats