I Loved Thee, and She Lay Back White

'i would not share my sorrow with any one, and sent the page who brought me word that king was standing on his porch to tell him so' 'And i watched tearless and stern all that night by the bier of the pale, white girl who had given so much for me and taken so poor a reward,' he writes. 'I groaned in shame and grief and bent over her, thinking how dear things might have been had they been otherwise', she adds. "and loving her no whit the less, because she was so cold, immovable"