“I dreamt of my lady, I dreamt of her shroud,”

Cried a voice from the kinsmen, all wrathful and loud;

“And empty that shroud, and that coffin did seem:

Glenara! Glenara! now read me my dream!”

O! pale grew the cheek of that chieftain, I ween,

When the shroud was unclosed, and no lady was seen;

When a voice from the kinsmen spoke louder in scorn,

’Twas the youth who had loved the fair Ellen of Lorn:

“I dreamt of my lady, I dreamt of her grief,

I dreamt that her lord was a barbarous chief: