The stranger smiled:—“Since to your home
A destined errant[61] knight I come,
Announced by prophet sooth[62] and old,
Doom’d, doubtless, for achievement bold,
I’ll lightly front each high emprise[63]
For one kind glance of those bright eyes.
Permit me, first, the task to guide
Your fairy frigate o’er the tide.”
The maid, with smile suppress’d and sly,
The toil unwonted saw him try;