Gray watch-towers, hawk-like, overhung;

And 'mid the pines, wild, ivy-clung,

She saw a castle lift its old

Green walls of ruin, now a cave

For bandits, and a robber-hold

Of lust, beside a torrent's wave.

Then o'er a bridge, whose granite arched

The torrent's foam, she saw a knight,—

Behind whom spear-armed followers marched,—

Like Galahad, in glittering white,