On eyes and lips, and words that none may know—

What words of promise said she in mine ear!

Drunk with her beauty still I felt no fear,

When, past the forest, like some bounding brute,

I heard the river roaring. Drawing near,

Again she whispered, and my soul grew mute

Before her voice that lulled like music of a lute:

XIII

"Within the webs of darkness and of day