Banquet and festal song?
"The winds and the waves together
Lay in unshaken rest;
From the hall a song of mourning
Heard I with tears opprest."
Didst thou behold ascending
The queen and the king so bold, -
The flutter of crimson mantles,
The glitter of crowns of gold?
Came there not forth beside them
With joy a maiden there,
Even as the sun most glorious,
With a halo of golden hair?
"Certes I saw the parents,
Tho' no crowns shone splendidly;
Black were their robes of sorrow : -
The girl I could not see!"