But softly spake: “Most royal sir!”

He raised his head and looked at her.

So might a castaway, half dead,

Lift up his haggard head,

Waked by the swirl of sudden rain,

A cool, unhoped-for grace,

Against his tearless face:

And see, with happy-crazèd mind,

Upon his raft a Bright One stand,—

His love of youth, her grave long left behind