That you and I must wear.

'No gold work for my girdle band,
No gold work on my feet;
But ashes of the fire, my love,
But dust that the serpents eat.'

* * * * * *

They danced across the bridge of Death,
Above the black water,
And the marriage-bell was tolled in hell
For the souls of him and her.



LE PERE SEVERE.
KING LOUIS' DAUGHTER.
BALLAD OF THE ISLE OF FRANCE.



King Louis on his bridge is he,
He holds his daughter on his knee.

She asks a husband at his hand
That is not worth a rood of land.

'Give up your lover speedily,
Or you within the tower must lie.'