’Twas the Bridegroom sat at the table-head,

And the lights burnt bright and clear—

“Oh, who is that,” the Bridegroom said,

“Whose weary feet I hear?”

’Twas one look’d from the lighted hall,

And answered soft and slow,

“It is a wolf runs up and down

With a black track in the snow.”

The Bridegroom in his robe of white

Sat at the table-head—