To drip a horror at impassive feet

And blur the polished oak. But lofty she

Stood proud, relentless; in her ecstacy

A lovely devil; a crowned lust that cried

On Accolon; that harlot which defied

Heaven with a voice of pulses clamorous as

Steep storm that down a cavernous mountain pass

Blasphemes an hundred echoes; with like power

The inner harlot called its paramour:

Him whom King Arthur had commanded, when