She heard a note in Elmond wood,
And wished she there had been.
The voice of the unseen sea gives a note of deep solemnity and terror to the supernatural landscape through which Thomas, the Rhymer, journeys with the elfin queen:—
And they rode on and farther on,
And they waded the river above the knee,
And they saw neither sun nor moon,
But they heard the roaring of the sea.
How the strength of a lover's thought is illuminated by the touch of nature itself in Willie and Alison:—
When he was in his saddle set,
And slowly ridin' on his way,