Fair on her brow is her tire,

Gemmed with the morning-star's fire.

II

And still as the incense of altars,

And dim as the deeps of a cloud,

Mystic as winds of the woodlands,

In that vale, is the night when she falters

In the sorrowful folds of her shroud,

The far-blowing dusk of her shroud,

By the scarlet-strewn bier of her lover,