Low adown, low adown, From under my starry sea-bud crown And I should look like a fountain of gold With a shrill inner sound Over the throne In the midst of the hall; Till that great sea-snake under the sea Round the hall where I sate, and look in at the gate With his large calm eyes for the love of me. And all the mermen under the sea Would feel their immortality Die in their hearts for the love of me. But at night I would wander away, away, I would fling on each side my low-flowing locks, And lightly vault from the throne and play With the mermen in and out of the rocks; We would run to and fro, and hide and seek, On the broad sea-wolds i' the crimson shells, Whose silvery spikes are nighest the sea. But if any came near, I would call and shriek, And adown the steep like a wave I would leap From the diamond ledges that jut from the dells, For I would not be kissed by all who list, All things that are forked, and horned, and soft, sea, All looking down for the love of me. THE SISTERS. E were two daughters of one race: The wind is blowing in turret and tree. They were together, and she fell; She died she went to burning flame: O the Earl was fair to see! I made a feast; I bade him come : And after supper, on a bed, Upɔn my lap he laid his head: O the Earl was fair to see! I kissed his eyelids into rest: I made my dagger sharp and bright. I curled and combed his comely head, The wind is blowing in turret and tree. And laid him at his mother's feet. O the Earl was fair to see! AS THRO' THE LAND AT EVE WE WENT. S thro' the land at eve we went, And blessings on the falling out When we fall out with those we love, For when we came where lies the child We lost in other years, There above the little grave, |