Graced with obeisance. And, "Our lord," said one,

"Tenders you courtesy until the dawn,

The Earl, Sir Damas. For the day is gone,

And you are weary. Safe in his strong keep,

Led thither with due worship, you shall sleep."

And so he came, o'erwearied, to a hall,

An owlet-haunted pile, whose weedy wall

Towered, rock on rock; its turrets, crowding high,

Loomed, ancient as the crags, against a sky

Wherein the moon hung, owl-eyed, round and full: