A look well worth a realm’s acquest.
She sat as in the groves of Greece
(That land of beauty overthrown),
The wild rose blooms in noiseless peace
By prostrate Hercules in stone.
At last he wakes to consciousness,
And looks around him in distress.
Alas! his eye before so mild
Now glares deliriously wild.
“Where am I? Girl, why art thou here?