There she sees the highway near

Winding down to Camelot;

There the river eddy whirls,

And there the surly village-churls,

And the red cloaks of market-girls,

Pass onward from Shalott.

Sometimes a troop of damsels glad,

An abbot on an ambling pad,

Sometimes a curly shepherd-lad,

Or long-haired page in crimson clad,