Of moonlight in the moonlit air:

She flung it wide: what saw she there?

Sir Elid in the moonlight's beam,

Stark, staring as if still a-dream

Rode downward towards the rushing stream.

His helm and corselet had he on,

And, in one gauntlet, silver-wan,

His bugle-horn was upward drawn.

Upon his horn he blew his best;

Then sang, it seemed, his merriest,