Then the athel hoves and halts on the bank + 

Of the double ditch that engirdled that dwelling; + 

Wonderly deep stood the wall in water, + 

And a huge height also it heav’d up aloft + 

Of hard hewn stone úp to the cornice, + 

Emban’d under battlement in the bést wìse; + 

Garrets full gay were gear’d thereover. + 

With many a lovely casement that closèd full clean; + 

A better barbican that bearn never saw. + 

Further in, full high the hall he beheld, + 

With turrets atop all cuspèd and tined, + 

Crown’d with capitals craftily taper’d, + 

And carven finials curiously chisel’d. + 

There were chalk-white chimneys, the choicest of art, + 

That blink’d all bright on the bastel roof; + 

And painted pinnacles upon it were sprinkled, + 

Amid the crenellations cluster’d so thick, + 

They seem’d pared out of paper, a palace of fäerie. + 

To that free on the foal ’twas a fáir sìght; + 

Coúld he but compass, that cloister within, + 

In hostel to harbour, while holiday lasted + 

in hall! + 

He call’d, and soon appear’d + 

A porter at his call, + 

Kindly his errand heard + 

And hail’d him, from the wall. + 