With slender towers ivied o'er the wood;

An ancient chapel creeper-buried near;

A forest vista, where faint herds of deer

Stalked like soft shadows; where the hares did run,

Mavis and throstle caroled in the sun.

For it was Morgane's realm, embowered Gore;

That rooky pile her palace whence she bore

With Urience sway; but he at Camelot

Knew naught of intrigues here at Chariot.

II.