And iron clanged within the Keep:

And then from one gaunt casement, barred

With night, a woman, dim and deep,

Gazed at me long and hard.

To her I sang. And as she leaned

In beauty to me, dark and tall,

And loud I sang of Love, I gleaned

An inkling of her Court withal:

For, lo, above her, watched a Fiend,

Wolf-eyeballed, on the wall.