The bridal party soon arrived, and Marguerite heard their entrance.
The ceremony proceeded.

Mass was said.

The wedding-ring was blessed; and as Baptiste placed it on the bride's finger, he said the accustomed words.

In a moment a voice cried: "It is he! It is he;" and Marguerite rushed through the bridal party towards him with a knife in her hand to stab herself; but before she could reach the bridegroom she fell down dead--broken-hearted! The crime which she had intended to commit against herself was thus prevented.
In the evening, in place of a bridal song, the De Profundis was chanted, and now each one seemed to say:-- "The roads shall mourn, and, veiled in gloom, So fair a corpse shall leave its home! Should mourn and weep, ah, well-away, So fair a corpse shall pass to-day!"{3} This poem was finished in August 1835; and on the 26th of the same month it was publicly recited by Jasmin at Bordeaux, at the request of the Academy of that city.
There was great beauty, tenderness, and pathos in the poem.

It was perfectly simple and natural.