LVII + 

Then the magician solemnly ’gan to frown, + 

So that his frost-white eye-brows, beetling low, + 

Shaded his deep green eyes, and wrinkles brown + 

Plaited upon his furnace-scorched brow: + 

Forth from his hood that hung his neck below + 

He lifted a bright casket of pure gold, + 

Touch’d a spring-lock, and there in wool or snow, + 

Charm’d into ever freezing, lay an old + 

And legend-leaved book, mysterious to behold. + 