Of that ungainly fortress bleak of wrong.

At length they came to a nail-studded door,

Which she unlocked with one harsh key she bore

Mid many keys bunched at her girdle; thence

They issued on a terraced eminence.

Beneath the sea broke sounding; and the King

Breathed open air that had the smell and sting

Of brine morn-vigored and blue-billowed foam;

For in the East the second dawning's gloam,

Since that unlucky chase, was freaked with streaks