"Wherewith the sure oath shall I make?"

"Thou shalt swear by the one eye left in thine head,

And the throng of the ghosts of the evil dead."

She swore the oath, and then she spake:

"Now let the second dawn awake."

And e'en therewith the thing was done;

There was peace in the hall, and the light of the sun.

And again the Queen was calm and fair,

And courteous sat the guest-folk there.

Yet unto Goldilocks it seemed