Thy native songs, gay as a desert bird

Which crieth as it flies for perfect joy,

Or telling me old stories of dead knights;

Or I will read great lays to thee—how she,

The fair pale sister, went to her chill grave

With power to love and to be loved and live:

Or we will go together, like twin gods

Of the infernal world, with scented lamp

Over the dead, to call and to awake,

Over the unshaped images which lie