But a weird uncanny drives her on.

"'Tis a bitter tale for Christian folk,

How once she dreamed, and how she woke."

"Ay, ay!" I passed and reached the spring

Where the poplars kept their whispering,

Hid for an hour in the shade,

In the rank marsh grass of a tiny glade.

There crossed the moor from the town afar,

In kirtle of white and cinnabar,