One low churl compact of thankless earth

Peep’d—but his eyes, before they had their will

Were shrivelled into darkness in his head,

And she, that knew not, pass’d; and all at once

With twelve great shocks of sound, the shameless noon

Was clash’d and hammered from a hundred towers,

One after one: But even then she gained

Her bower; whence re-issuing, robed and crowned,

To meet her lord, she took the tax away

And built herself an everlasting name.