With Morgane's hollow lute, one studious dawn

Came solely; with not ev'n her brindled hound

To leap beside him o'er the gleaming ground;

No handmaid lovely of his loveliest fair,

Or paging dwarf in purple with him there;

But this her lute, about which her perfume

Clung odorous of memories, that made bloom

Her flowing features rosy to his eyes,

That saw the words, his sense could but surmise,

Shaped on dim, breathing lips; the laugh that drunk