She lifted; and spake once again to him:

“When I came out of Spain to Sigebert

The rude Franks wondered at my company,

My Moorish falconers and deep-voiced hounds,

My swift light-horsemen, harpers, lutanists;

And prophesied my days would fly, like gold

Out of the loose hands of a prodigal,

With the delight of hunting and the glad

Singing of minstrels in the crowded hall,

Where the red torches mirror on the shields