Let me tell out my tale to its ending—my voice to my heart

Which scarce dares believe in what marvels last night I took part,

As this morning I gather the fragments, alone with my sheep!

And fear lest the terrible glory evanish like sleep,

For I wake in the grey dewy covert, while Hebron upheaves

Dawn struggling with night on his shoulder, and Kidron retrieves

Slow the damage of yesterday’s sunshine.

XV.

I say then,—my song

While I sang thus, assuring the monarch, and, ever more strong,