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There he could rest, and for a time forget.
So, for a time, he lost the name of life,
And of all else except Isolt. . . . “Isolt!”
That was the only name left in the world,
And that was only a name. “Isolt! Isolt!”
So, for a time, he lost the name of life,
And of all else except Isolt. . . . “Isolt!”
That was the only name left in the world,
And that was only a name. “Isolt! Isolt!”
After an endless day of sleep and waking,
With Gouvernail adventuring in and out
Like some industrious and unquiet phantom,
He woke again with low light coming in
Through a red window. Now the room was dim,
But with a dimness that would let him see
That he was not alone. “Isolt!” he said,
And waited, knowing that it was not Isolt.
With Gouvernail adventuring in and out
Like some industrious and unquiet phantom,
He woke again with low light coming in
Through a red window. Now the room was dim,
But with a dimness that would let him see
That he was not alone. “Isolt!” he said,
And waited, knowing that it was not Isolt.
A crooning voice that had within its guile
A laughing ring of metal said, “Isolt?
Isolt is married. Are you young men never
To know that when a princess weds a king
The young man, if he be a wise young man,
Will never afford himself another fever,
And lie for days on a poor zany’s rags,
For all the princesses in Christendom?
Gouvernail found you, I found Gouvernail,
A laughing ring of metal said, “Isolt?
Isolt is married. Are you young men never
To know that when a princess weds a king
The young man, if he be a wise young man,
Will never afford himself another fever,
And lie for days on a poor zany’s rags,
For all the princesses in Christendom?
Gouvernail found you, I found Gouvernail,
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