Even she is the noble Brunhild, of the beauty world-renowned,
The Star of thine heart’s strong yearning, the choice of thy mind and thy will.”
King Gunther gazed, and he deemed her ever sweeter and fairer still.
Then that Daughter of Kings commanded that her winsome maidens should go
From the casements: she would not suffer that there they stand for a show
And a feast for the eyes of strangers. Was none dared disobey;
Yet that which they did thereafter is told in the ancient lay.
They arrayed them in fairest adorning for the stranger knights to see—
As fair maids have done ever, since time began to be;—
Thereafter through half-drawn curtains they peered, those dainty spies,