Loud clanging at her feet, hacked, hewn, and red,

Crusted with blood, a knight in armor—dead:

Her Accolon, flung in his battered arms

By what to her seemed fiends and demon forms,

Wild-torched, who mocked; then, with the parting scoff,

"This from the King!" phantoms in fog, rode off.


And what remains?—From Camelot to Gore

That night she, wailing, fled; thence, to the shore,—

As old romances tell,—of Avalon;