And love’s fine voice, she else shall never hear,

Came to her as the call of saints long dead;

And straightway all the passion in her burned,

One altar-flame that hourly waxes clear.

Hence goes she ever in a glimmering dream,

And very oft will sudden stand at gaze,

With blue, dim eyes that still not seem to see:

For now the well-known ways with visions teem;

Unfelt is toil, and summer one green daze,

Till that the king be crowned, and France be free!