- Chorus: In that dawn, in that gloom, / More than love met its doom, / In the dying embers' gleam / Came the sundown of a dream.
- [last lines]
- King Pellinore: Who is that, Arthur?
- King Arthur: One of what we all are, Pelly. Less than a drop in the great, blue motion of the sunlit sea. But it seems that some of the drops sparkle, Pelly. Some of them do sparkle! Run, boy! Run, boy!
- [first lines]
- [first spoken lines]
- King Arthur: Why is Guinevere in that castle, behind walls I cannot enter? Why am I on the far side on the channel on this dark and dismal plain waiting an angry dawn to do battle against the man I love, for the woman I love?