Doth work like madness in the brain.

And thus it fared, as I divine,

With Roland and Sir Leoline.

Each spake words of high disdain

And insult to his heart's best brother;

But never either found another

To free the hollow heart from paining.

They stood aloof, the scars remaining,

Like cliffs that had been rent asunder:

A dreary sea now flows between,