For any knight the fair could see.

And sing the Hawk of pinion gray,[[C]]

To southern climes who winged his way,

For he could speak as well as fly;

Her brethren how the fair beguiled,

And on her Scottish lover smiled,

As slow she raised her languid eye.

Fair was her cheek's carnation glow,

Like red blood on a wreath of snow;

Like evening's dewy star her eye: