With him to whom her beauty fell.

“Faithful she was, and served him well,

Bore him a son who had no name,

And died: so then her lover’s flame

Sought other kindling for a spell.

“Forsaken, hitherward her steps

Strayed, and to God she tuned her lips

For mercy, dying so: but earth

“Was closed against her. Ah, it’s bad—

No yard of all his lands and worth