Classic Poem

Me pleased it ill to be out cast
so suddenly from that fair realm,
from all those sights so blithe and brave.
Sore longing struck me, and I swoon'd,
and ruefully then I cried aloud:—
“O Pearl,” quoth I, “of rich renown,
how dear to me was all that thou
in this true vision didst declare!
And if the tale be verily true
that thou thus farest, in garland gay,
so well is me in this dungeon dire,
that thou art pleasing to that Prince!”