So sweet in the gleam of her garment:
Her footfall awakens a fury,
A fierceness of love that I knew not,
Those feet of a wench in her wimple,
Their weird is my sorrow and troubling,
-- Or naught may my knowledge avail me --
Both now and for aye to endure."

Then Steingerd knew she was seen. She turned aside into a corner
where the likeness of Hagbard was carved on the wall, and peeped
under Hagbard's beard. Then the firelight shone upon her face.

"Cormac," said Tosti, "seest eyes out yonder by that head of
Hagbard?"

Cormac answered in song: --

(2)
"There breaks on me, burning upon me,
A blaze from the cheeks of a maiden,
-- I laugh not to look on the vision --
In the light of the hall by the doorway.
So sweet and so slender I deem her,
Though I spy bug a glimpse of an ankle
By the threshold: -- and through me there flashes
A thrill that shall age never more."

And then he made another song: --

(3)