His hand on the door clashed steel—

In the hall, the roar of the torrent,

In the turret, the thunder's peal—

And there in the highest turret

She sat at a spinning-wheel.

She spun the flax of a spindle,

All in a magic space;

She spun with her head bent downward,

His Lady, fair of face;

She spun, all wildly singing,