XLIX + 

Ah! wherefore all this wormy circumstance? + 

Why linger at the yawning tomb so long? + 

O for the gentleness of old Romance, + 

The simple plaining of a minstrel’s song! + 

Fair reader, at the old tale take a glance, + 

For here, in truth, it doth not well belong + 

To speak:⁠—O turn thee to the very tale, + 

And taste the music of that vision pale. + 