V. I made a garland for her head, And bracelets too, and fragrant zone; She look'd at me as she did love, And made sweet moan.. VI. I set her on my pacing steed, And nothing else saw all day long, For sidelong would she bend, and sing A faery's song. VII. She found me roots of relish sweet, "I love thee true." VIII. She took me to her elfin grot, And there she wept, and sigh'd full sore, And there I shut her wild wild eyes With kisses four. IX. And there she lulled me asleep, And there I dream'd-Ah! woe betide! The latest dream I ever dream'd On the cold hill's side. I saw pale kings and princes too, Pale warriors, death-pale were they all; They cried-"La Belle Dame sans Merci Hath thee in thrall!" XI. I saw their starved lips in the gloam, On the cold hill's side. XII. And this is why I sojourn here, Alone and palely loitering, Though the sedge is wither'd from the lake, And no birds sing. 271 SONG OF FOUR FAIRIES, FIRE, AIR, EARTH, AND WATER, SALAMANDER, ZEPHYR, DUSKETHA, AND BREAMA. Sal. HAPPY, happy glowing fire! Dazzling bowers of soft retire, Of men, and beasts, and fish, and apes, Portray'd in many a fiery den, And wrought by spumy bitumen. Arched every way aloof, 1819. Let me breathe upon their skies, Of chilly rain, and shivering air. Will sear my plumage newly budded Spirit of Fire-away! away! Love me, blue-eyed Fairy! true, Zep. Gentle Breama! by the first I will bathe myself with thee, Beyond the nimble-wheeled quest Where they ever floating are Clouds of stored summer rains Thou shalt taste, before the stains VOL. II. Keep ye with your frozen breath, T |