That thou art come, her very foe.

No minute more on tidings wait,

Lest e'en this minute be too late."

She led him from the sunlit green,

Going sweet-stately as a queen.

There in the dusky wood, and dim,

As forth they went, she spake to him:

"Fair man, few people have I seen

Amidst this world of woodland green:

But I would have thee tell me now