Which then was as an angel, but she saw—

Wet with the mists and smitten by the lights—

The dragon of the great Pendragon-ship

Blaze, making all the night a steam of fire.

And even then he turned; and more and more

The moony vapours rolling round the king,

Who seemed the phantom of a giant in it,

Enwound him, fold by fold, and made him gray

And grayer, till himself became as mist

Before her, moving ghostlike to his doom.”