And stay a little while, and bid them weep:

Ah, touch their blue veined eyelids if they sleep,

And shake their coverlet.

‘When you have told how I weep endlessly,

Flutter along the froth lips of the sea

And home to me again,

And in the shadow of my hair lie hid,

And tell me how you came to one unbid,

The saddest of all men.’

A maiden with soft eyes like funeral tapers,