Where paths entwine, where hills and valleys be,

And still, black pools; the cypress mystically

Shrouds those dark ways. There living souls may tread

With but slow steps and rare. With slow steps, led

By Love two lovers passed; they spake, and she

Cast down her mystic eyes lest he might see

In their vague depths the image of her dread.

A great round-tower of granite crowns that land.

Thither they came, and now her starry eyes

Were raised to his; that dread which wrought them ill