And placed them in this ruin; and she wish’d

The Prince had found her in her ancient home;

Then let her fancy flit across the past, 645

And roam the goodly places that she knew;

And last bethought her how she used to watch,

Near that old home, a pool of golden carp;

And one was patch’d and blurr’d and lustreless

Among his burnish’d brethren of the pool; 650

And half asleep she made comparison

Of that and these to her own faded self