And heard far off his footsteps beat;

Singing, they pushed him through the door,

And he fell full length on the darkened floor....

But his head struck sharply as he fell

And he heard a sound like a broken bell;

And then, in the half-light of the moon,

The twittering elvish light of June,

A host of folk came round him there,—

Sheba, with diamonds in her hair,

Solomon, thrumming a psaltery,