And on the White was the Cloud-fleck blue.

Last went the Anchor of the Wrights

Beside the Ship of the Faring-Knights.

Then thronged the folk the June-tide field

With naked sword and painted shield,

Till they came adown to the river-side,

And there by the mound did they abide.

Now when the swords stood thick and white

As the mace reeds stand in the streamless bight,

There rose a man on the mound alone