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I waited for the train at Coventry	A
I hung with grooms and porters on the bridge	B
To match the three tall spires and there I shaped	C
The city's ancient legend into this	D
Not only we the latest seed of Time	E
New men that in the flying of a wheel	F
Cry down the past not only we that prate	C
Of rights and wrongs have loved the people well	G
And loathed to see them overtax'd but she	A
Did more and underwent and overcame	H
The woman of a thousand summers back	I
Godiva wife to that grim Earl who ruled	C
In Coventry for when he laid a tax	J
Upon his town and all the mothers brought	C
Their children clamouring 'If we pay we starve '	K
She sought her lord and found him where he strode	C
About the hall among his dogs alone	L
His beard a foot before him and his hair	M
A yard behind She told him of their tears	N
And pray'd him 'If they pay this tax they starve'	O
Whereat he stared replying half amazed	C
'You would not let your little finger ache	P
For such as these ' 'But I would die ' said she	A
He laugh'd and swore by Peter and by Paul	Q
Then fillip'd at the diamond in her ear	R
'O ay ay ay you talk ' 'Alas ' she said	C
'But prove me what it is I would not do '	K
And from a heart as rough as Esau's hand	C
He answer'd 'Ride you naked thro' the town	S
And I repeal it' and nodding as in scorn	T
He parted with great strides among his dogs	U
So left alone the passions of her mind	C
As winds from all the compass shift and blow	V
Made war upon each other for an hour	W
Till pity won She sent a herald forth	X
And bad him cry with sound of trumpet all	Q
The hard condition but that she would loose	Y
The people therefore as they loved her well	G
From then till noon no foot should pace the street	C
No eye look down she passing but that all	Q
Should keep within door shut and window barr'd	C
Then fled she to her inmost bower and there	M
Unclasp'd the wedded eagles of her belt	C
The grim Earl's gift but ever at a breath	Z
She linger'd looking like a summer moon	A2
Half dipt in cloud anon she shook her head	C
And shower'd the rippled ringlets to her knee	A
Unclad herself in haste adown the stair	M
Stole on and like a creeping sunbeam slid	C
From pillar unto pillar until she reach'd	C
The gateway there she found her palfrey trapt	C
In purple blazon'd with armorial gold	C
Then she rode forth clothed on with chastity	C
The deep air listen'd round her as she rode	C
And all the low wind hardly breathed for fear	B2
The little wide mouth'd heads upon the spout	C
Had cunning eyes to see the barking cur	W
Made her cheek flame her palfrey's footfall shot	C
Light horrors thro' her pulses the blind walls	C2
Were full of chinks and holes and overhead	C
Fantastic gables crowding stared but she	C
Not less thro' all bore up till last she saw	D2
The white flower'd elder thicket from the field	C
Gleam thro' the Gothic archways in the wall	Q
Then she rode back cloth'd on with chastity	C
And one low churl compact of thankless earth	E2
The fatal byword of all years to come	F2
Boring a little auger hole in fear	B2
Peep'd but his eyes before they had their will	G2
Were shrivell'd into darkness in his head	C
And dropt before him So the Powers who wait	C
On noble deeds cancell'd a sense misused	C
And she that knew not pass'd and all at once	H2
With twelve great shocks of sound the shameless noon	A2
Was clash'd and hammer'd from a hundred towers	I2
One after one but even then she gain'd	C
Her bower whence reissuing robed and crown'd	C
To meet her lord she took the tax away	J2
And built herself an everlasting name	H

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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