Their watch around, she sighed and wept.

Then, like a severed bough, she lay

Prone on the bare earth in dismay.

The while her thoughts on love's fleet wings

Flew to her lord the best of kings.

She fell upon the ground, and there

Lay struggling with her wild despair,

Sad as a lady born again

To misery and woe and pain,

Now doomed to grief and low estate,