What does the conclusion of the poem (Lines 60-69) suggest about Tristan and [RL.5] Isolde, and how does this impact the overall meaning of the poem? So loved Tristan and Isolde,
In youth’s sunny, golden time,
In the brightness of their prime;
Little dreaming hours would come,
Like pale shadows from the tomb,
[65]When an open death of doom
Had been still less hard to bear,
Than the ghastly,24 cold despair
Of those hidden vows, whose smart
Pale the cheek, and break the heart.