The bridge was drawn down, and the bróad gàtes + 

On both hands unbarr’d, and borne wide open; + 

And he blessèd himself and the board rode over. + 

He prais’d the porter, (who kneel’d to the prince, + 

Giving him “Good-day,” and “God save Gawain”) + 

Then went on his way with the wight alone + 

That should guide him i’ the gate to the gloomy place + 

Where behoved him endure the doleful onset. + 

They rode by banks where boughs were bare, + 

They clomb by cliffs where the cóld clùng; + 

High were the clouds, but ’twas ugly thereunder; + 

It mizzled on the moor, on the mountains it pour’d⁠— + 

Each hill had a hat and a hood of vapour. + 

Brooks boil’d and broke as their banks they swept, + 

And shatter’d on shores where adown they shot. + 

Oh! wildsome was the way where by wood they should ride, + 

Till ’twas soon the season when the sun rises + 

that tide. + 

They were on a hill full high, + 

The white snow lay beside; + 

The squire that rode him by + 

Then bade the knight abide: + 