Hold shapes on the yonder bank.

A moment her body waned,

The light of her sprang and sank:

Clear feature, and she breathed deep.

She wore the wan smile he had seen,

As the flow of the river of Sleep,

On the mouth of the Shadow-Queen.

In sunlight she craved to bask,

Saying: Life! And who was she? who?

Of what issue? He dared not ask,