Thou lovely fiend!

Yvette

De Vardes! De Vardes! The name comes on the blast

Up from the gulf where lie the thrones of kings.

Battle, oppression, tyranny and wrong—

Miramand, Blanchefôret! on sea winds in they float

From that dim palace where that lost Ahès

Down to her emerald windows beckons man

And spreads the bridal bed in sunken Ys!

Nanon