There was long looking that liege to behold, + 

Not a man but marvel’d what it might mean, + 

That an athel and a horse should have such a colour + 

As to grow green as grass, and greener it seem’d, + 

Glowing more green than enamel on gold. + 

They studied what stood there, then stalk’d it a-nigh + 

With áll the wónder in the wórld what work it would do, + 

For many a marvel had they seen but no marvel like this; + 

Wherefore phantom and fäerie the folk must it deem, + 

And many an athel was for answer o’erawed. + 

All were stounded at his speech and stood there like stocks, + 

In a swooning silence; as on sleep they were fall’n, + 

All that court so stately were still as a stone + 

well-nigh; + 

Not all, in faith! for fear, + 

But some for courtesy; + 

On the Prince that had no peer + 

They waited for reply. + 