All silver-green with gnarlèd bark:

For leagues no other tree did mark

The level waste, the rounding grey.

She only said, "My life is dreary,

He cometh not," she said;

She said, "I am aweary, aweary,

I would that I were dead!"

And ever when the moon was low,

And the shrill winds were up and away,

In the white curtain, to and fro,