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O purblind race of miserable men	A
How many among us at this very hour	B
Do forge a life long trouble for ourselves	C
By taking true for false or false for true	D
Here through the feeble twilight of this world	E
Groping how many until we pass and reach	F
That other where we see as we are seen	G
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So fared it with Geraint who issuing forth	H
That morning when they both had got to horse	I
Perhaps because he loved her passionately	J
And felt that tempest brooding round his heart	K
Which if he spoke at all would break perforce	I
Upon a head so dear in thunder said	L
'Not at my side I charge thee ride before	M
Ever a good way on before and this	N
I charge thee on thy duty as a wife	O
Whatever happens not to speak to me	J
No not a word ' and Enid was aghast	P
And forth they rode but scarce three paces on	Q
When crying out 'Effeminate as I am	R
I will not fight my way with gilded arms	S
All shall be iron ' he loosed a mighty purse	T
Hung at his belt and hurled it toward the squire	U
So the last sight that Enid had of home	V
Was all the marble threshold flashing strown	Q
With gold and scattered coinage and the squire	U
Chafing his shoulder then he cried again	Q
'To the wilds ' and Enid leading down the tracks	W
Through which he bad her lead him on they past	P
The marches and by bandit haunted holds	X
Gray swamps and pools waste places of the hern	Q
And wildernesses perilous paths they rode	Y
Round was their pace at first but slackened soon	Q
A stranger meeting them had surely thought	Z
They rode so slowly and they looked so pale	A2
That each had suffered some exceeding wrong	B2
For he was ever saying to himself	C2
'O I that wasted time to tend upon her	B
To compass her with sweet observances	D2
To dress her beautifully and keep her true'	B
And there he broke the sentence in his heart	K
Abruptly as a man upon his tongue	E2
May break it when his passion masters him	F2
And she was ever praying the sweet heavens	G2
To save her dear lord whole from any wound	H2
And ever in her mind she cast about	I2
For that unnoticed failing in herself	C2
Which made him look so cloudy and so cold	J2
Till the great plover's human whistle amazed	K2
Her heart and glancing round the waste she feared	L2
In ever wavering brake an ambuscade	L2
Then thought again 'If there be such in me	J
I might amend it by the grace of Heaven	Q
If he would only speak and tell me of it '	-
	-
But when the fourth part of the day was gone	Q
Then Enid was aware of three tall knights	M2
On horseback wholly armed behind a rock	N2
In shadow waiting for them caitiffs all	O2
And heard one crying to his fellow 'Look	N2
Here comes a laggard hanging down his head	L2
Who seems no bolder than a beaten hound	L2
Come we will slay him and will have his horse	I
And armour and his damsel shall be ours '	-
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Then Enid pondered in her heart and said	L2
'I will go back a little to my lord	L2
And I will tell him all their caitiff talk	N2
For be he wroth even to slaying me	J
Far liefer by his dear hand had I die	L2
Than that my lord should suffer loss or shame '	-
	-
Then she went back some paces of return	Q
Met his full frown timidly firm and said	L2
'My lord I saw three bandits by the rock	N2
Waiting to fall on you and heard them boast	L2
That they would slay you and possess your horse	I
And armour and your damsel should be theirs '	-
	-
He made a wrathful answer 'Did I wish	P2
Your warning or your silence one command	L2
I laid upon you not to speak to me	J
And thus ye keep it Well then look for now	Q
Whether ye wish me victory or defeat	L2
Long for my life or hunger for my death	Q2
Yourself shall see my vigour is not lost '	-
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Then Enid waited pale and sorrowful	R2
And down upon him bare the bandit three	J
And at the midmost charging Prince Geraint	L2
Drave the long spear a cubit through his breast	L2
And out beyond and then against his brace	S2
Of comrades each of whom had broken on him	F2
A lance that splintered like an icicle	R2
Swung from his brand a windy buffet out	L2
Once twice to right to left and stunned the twain	Q
Or slew them and dismounting like a man	Q
That skins the wild beast after slaying him	F2
Stript from the three dead wolves of woman born	Q
The three gay suits of armour which they wore	B
And let the bodies lie but bound the suits	T2
Of armour on their horses each on each	F
And tied the bridle reins of all the three	J
Together and said to her 'Drive them on	Q
Before you ' and she drove them through the waste	L2
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He followed nearer ruth began to work	N2
Against his anger in him while he watched	L2
The being he loved best in all the world	L2
With difficulty in mild obedience	U2
Driving them on he fain had spoken to her	B
And loosed in words of sudden fire the wrath	V2
And smouldered wrong that burnt him all within	Q
But evermore it seemed an easier thing	N2
At once without remorse to strike her dead	L2
Than to cry 'Halt ' and to her own bright face	S2
Accuse her of the least immodesty	L2
And thus tongue tied it made him wroth the more	B
That she COULD speak whom his own ear had heard	L2
Call herself false and suffering thus he made	L2
Minutes an age but in scarce longer time	W2
Than at Caerleon the full tided Usk	N2
Before he turn to fall seaward again	Q
Pauses did Enid keeping watch behold	L2
In the first shallow shade of a deep wood	L2
Before a gloom of stubborn shafted oaks	X2
Three other horsemen waiting wholly armed	L2
Whereof one seemed far larger than her lord	L2
And shook her pulses crying 'Look a prize	Y2
Three horses and three goodly suits of arms	S
And all in charge of whom a girl set on '	-
'Nay ' said the second 'yonder comes a knight '	-
The third 'A craven how he hangs his head '	-
The giant answered merrily 'Yea but one	Q
Wait here and when he passes fall upon him '	-
	-
And Enid pondered in her heart and said	L2
'I will abide the coming of my lord	L2
And I will tell him all their villainy	Q
My lord is weary with the fight before	B
And they will fall upon him unawares	Z2
I needs must disobey him for his good	L2
How should I dare obey him to his harm	A3
Needs must I speak and though he kill me for it	L2
I save a life dearer to me than mine '	-
	-
And she abode his coming and said to him	F2
With timid firmness 'Have I leave to speak '	-
He said 'Ye take it speaking ' and she spoke	N2
	-
'There lurk three villains yonder in the wood	L2
And each of them is wholly armed and one	Q
Is larger limbed than you are and they say	B3
That they will fall upon you while ye pass '	-
	-
To which he flung a wrathful answer back	N2
'And if there were an hundred in the wood	L2
And every man were larger limbed than I	L2
And all at once should sally out upon me	J
I swear it would not ruffle me so much	C3
As you that not obey me Stand aside	L2
And if I fall cleave to the better man '	-
	-
And Enid stood aside to wait the event	L2
Not dare to watch the combat only breathe	D3
Short fits of prayer at every stroke a breath	Q2
And he she dreaded most bare down upon him	F2
Aimed at the helm his lance erred but Geraint's	B3
A little in the late encounter strained	L2
Struck through the bulky bandit's corselet home	V
And then brake short and down his enemy rolled	L2
And there lay still as he that tells the tale	A2
Saw once a great piece of a promontory	B
That had a sapling growing on it slide	L2
From the long shore cliff's windy walls to the beach	F
And there lie still and yet the sapling grew	B
So lay the man transfixt His craven pair	B
Of comrades making slowlier at the Prince	B3
When now they saw their bulwark fallen stood	L2
On whom the victor to confound them more	B
Spurred with his terrible war cry for as one	Q
That listens near a torrent mountain brook	N2
All through the crash of the near cataract hears	B3
The drumming thunder of the huger fall	O2
At distance were the soldiers wont to hear	B
His voice in battle and be kindled by it	L2
And foemen scared like that false pair who turned	L2
Flying but overtaken died the death	Q2
Themselves had wrought on many an innocent	L2
	-
Thereon Geraint dismounting picked the lance	B3
That pleased him best and drew from those dead wolve	C2

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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