To forlorn Pericles:

Silver the young voice rang.

The gray beard blew about his knees,

And the hair of his bowed head, like a veil,

Fell over his cheeks and blent with it:

He knew not anything.

Above him the Tyrian fold

Of the curtain billowed, fringed with gold,

As might beseem a king.

Sunset was rose on every sail