The scene is in the Electoral Palace at night, or rather very early morning, when the grey light is slowly coming. The Princess and Leonora have come into the outer hall of their apartments to burn certain papers in the fireplace there. Their plans are all made for flight with Königsmarck on the following day; and as they kindle the fire they talk, the Princess eagerly and Leonora with more caution, about their chances of escape. But on the very spot where they stand, Königsmarck had been secretly assassinated less than an hour before. And at this moment, while they are talking, his body is being hastily bricked into a disused staircase leading out of the hall. Faint sounds of the work reach the ears of the ladies as they begin their task; but though Leonora is disquieted, the Princess will not listen to her fears. She is on the crest of a mood of exaltation-- PRINCESS. The night is almost over, Soon will the topmost towers discern the day. The day! The day! O last of all the days I have spent in extreme penury of joy, In garish misery, unhelped wrong, And in unpardonable dishonour.... ..... Up lingering dawn! Why dost thou creep so pale, like one afraid? I want the sun! I want to-morrow! LEONORA. Madam, There was a hand on the door. What can these builders Be doing here at this hour? PRINCESS. Why, they're building. What does it matter? Let them build all night, I warrant they'll not build a wall so high Love cannot overleap it. _Bibliography_ LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE _Interludes and Poems._ John Lane. 1908. _The Sale of St Thomas._ Published by the Author. (Out of Print.) 1911. _Emblems of Love._ John Lane. 1912. _Deborah._ John Lane. 1913. Contributions to _New Numbers_, February, April, August, December, 1914. (Out of Print.) EVA GORE BOOTH _The Three Resurrections and The Triumph of Maeve._ Longmans. 1905. _The Agate Lamp._ Longmans. 1912. _The Sorrowful Princess._ Longmans. 1907. RUPERT BROOKE _Poems._ Sidgwick & Jackson. 1911. _1914 and Other Poems._ Sidgwick & Jackson. 1915. Contributions to _New Numbers_. (See ABERCROMBIE.) JOSEPH CAMPBELL _The Mountainy Singer._ Maunsel. 1909. _Irishry._ Maunsel. 1913. PADRAIC COLUM _Wild Earth._ (Out of Print.) 1907. JAMES COUSINS _The Quest._ Maunsel. 1906. _Etain the Beloved._ Maunsel. 1912. _Straight and Crooked._ Grant Richards. 1915. WILLIAM H. DAVIES _The Soul's Destroyer._ Alston Rivers. 1906. _New Poems._ Elkin Mathews. 1907. _Nature Poems._ A. C. Fifield. 1908. _Farewell to Poesy._ A. C. Fifield. 1910. _Songs of Joy._ A. C. Fifield. 1911. _Foliage._ Elkin Mathews. 1913. _The Bird of Paradise._ Methuen. 1914. WALTER DE LA MARE _Songs of Childhood._ Longmans. (Out of Print.) 1902.