THE WEDDING OF PALE BRONWEN

I.

The wind was waked by the morning light,

And it cried in the gray birch-tree,

And the cry was plain in Bronwen's bower,

"Oh, Bronwen, come to me!"

Pale, pale sleeps Bronwen, pale she wakes;

"What bird to my bower is flown?

For my lover, Red Ithel, is at the wars