Hearkens, arrested in its angriest mood,

While songs go up exulting, then dispread,

Dispart, disperse, lingering overhead

Like an escape of angels? 'T is the tune,

Nor much unlike the words his women croon

Smilingly, colorless and faint-designed

Each, as a worn-out queen's face some remind

Of her extreme youth's love-tales. "Eglamor

Made that!" Half minstrel and half emperor,

What but ill objects vexed him? Such he slew.