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The brave Geraint a knight of Arthur's court	A
A tributary prince of Devon one	B
Of that great Order of the Table Round	C
Had married Enid Yniol's only child	D
And loved her as he loved the light of Heaven	B
And as the light of Heaven varies now	E
At sunrise now at sunset now by night	F
With moon and trembling stars so loved Geraint	F
To make her beauty vary day by day	F
In crimsons and in purples and in gems	G
And Enid but to please her husband's eye	H
Who first had found and loved her in a state	F
Of broken fortunes daily fronted him	I
In some fresh splendour and the Queen herself	J
Grateful to Prince Geraint for service done	B
Loved her and often with her own white hands	K
Arrayed and decked her as the loveliest	F
Next after her own self in all the court	F
And Enid loved the Queen and with true heart	F
Adored her as the stateliest and the best	F
And loveliest of all women upon earth	L
And seeing them so tender and so close	M
Long in their common love rejoiced Geraint	F
But when a rumour rose about the Queen	N
Touching her guilty love for Lancelot	F
Though yet there lived no proof nor yet was heard	F
The world's loud whisper breaking into storm	O
Not less Geraint believed it and there fell	P
A horror on him lest his gentle wife	Q
Through that great tenderness for Guinevere	R
Had suffered or should suffer any taint	F
In nature wherefore going to the King	S
He made this pretext that his princedom lay	F
Close on the borders of a territory	R
Wherein were bandit earls and caitiff knights	T
Assassins and all flyers from the hand	F
Of Justice and whatever loathes a law	U
And therefore till the King himself should please	V
To cleanse this common sewer of all his realm	W
He craved a fair permission to depart	F
And there defend his marches and the King	S
Mused for a little on his plea but last	F
Allowing it the Prince and Enid rode	F
And fifty knights rode with them to the shores	X
Of Severn and they past to their own land	F
Where thinking that if ever yet was wife	Q
True to her lord mine shall be so to me	R
He compassed her with sweet observances	Y
And worship never leaving her and grew	R
Forgetful of his promise to the King	S
Forgetful of the falcon and the hunt	F
Forgetful of the tilt and tournament	F
Forgetful of his glory and his name	Z
Forgetful of his princedom and its cares	A2
And this forgetfulness was hateful to her	R
And by and by the people when they met	F
In twos and threes or fuller companies	V
Began to scoff and jeer and babble of him	I
As of a prince whose manhood was all gone	B2
And molten down in mere uxoriousness	V
And this she gathered from the people's eyes	V
This too the women who attired her head	F
To please her dwelling on his boundless love	C2
Told Enid and they saddened her the more	R
And day by day she thought to tell Geraint	F
But could not out of bashful delicacy	V
While he that watched her sadden was the more	R
Suspicious that her nature had a taint	F
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At last it chanced that on a summer morn	D2
They sleeping each by either the new sun	B
Beat through the blindless casement of the room	E2
And heated the strong warrior in his dreams	V
Who moving cast the coverlet aside	F
And bared the knotted column of his throat	F
The massive square of his heroic breast	F
And arms on which the standing muscle sloped	F
As slopes a wild brook o'er a little stone	F2
Running too vehemently to break upon it	F
And Enid woke and sat beside the couch	G2
Admiring him and thought within herself	J
Was ever man so grandly made as he	V
Then like a shadow past the people's talk	H2
And accusation of uxoriousness	V
Across her mind and bowing over him	I
Low to her own heart piteously she said	F
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'O noble breast and all puissant arms	V
Am I the cause I the poor cause that men	I2
Reproach you saying all your force is gone	B2
I AM the cause because I dare not speak	J2
And tell him what I think and what they say	V
And yet I hate that he should linger here	R
I cannot love my lord and not his name	Z
Far liefer had I gird his harness on him	I
And ride with him to battle and stand by	H
And watch his mightful hand striking great blows	V
At caitiffs and at wrongers of the world	F
Far better were I laid in the dark earth	L
Not hearing any more his noble voice	V
Not to be folded more in these dear arms	V
And darkened from the high light in his eyes	V
Than that my lord through me should suffer shame	Z
Am I so bold and could I so stand by	H
And see my dear lord wounded in the strife	Q
And maybe pierced to death before mine eyes	V
And yet not dare to tell him what I think	K2
And how men slur him saying all his force	V
Is melted into mere effeminacy	V
O me I fear that I am no true wife '	-
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Half inwardly half audibly she spoke	L2
And the strong passion in her made her weep	M2
True tears upon his broad and naked breast	F
And these awoke him and by great mischance	V
He heard but fragments of her later words	V
And that she feared she was not a true wife	Q
And then he thought 'In spite of all my care	R
For all my pains poor man for all my pains	V
She is not faithful to me and I see her	R
Weeping for some gay knight in Arthur's hall '	-
Then though he loved and reverenced her too much	N2
To dream she could be guilty of foul act	F
Right through his manful breast darted the pang	O2
That makes a man in the sweet face of her	R
Whom he loves most lonely and miserable	P2
At this he hurled his huge limbs out of bed	F
And shook his drowsy squire awake and cried	F
'My charger and her palfrey ' then to her	R
'I will ride forth into the wilderness	V
For though it seems my spurs are yet to win	Q2
I have not fallen so low as some would wish	R2
And thou put on thy worst and meanest dress	V
And ride with me ' And Enid asked amazed	F
'If Enid errs let Enid learn her fault '	-
But he 'I charge thee ask not but obey '	-
Then she bethought her of a faded silk	S2
A faded mantle and a faded veil	T2
And moving toward a cedarn cabinet	F
Wherein she kept them folded reverently	V
With sprigs of summer laid between the folds	V
She took them and arrayed herself therein	Q2
Remembering when first he came on her	R
Drest in that dress and how he loved her in it	F
And all her foolish fears about the dress	V
And all his journey to her as himself	J
Had told her and their coming to the court	F
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For Arthur on the Whitsuntide before	R
Held court at old Caerleon upon Usk	S2
There on a day he sitting high in hall	U2
Before him came a forester of Dean	N
Wet from the woods with notice of a hart	F
Taller than all his fellows milky white	F
First seen that day these things he told the King	S2
Then the good King gave order to let blow	V2
His horns for hunting on the morrow morn	D2
And when the King petitioned for his leave	W2
To see the hunt allowed it easily	V
So with the morning all the court were gone	B2
But Guinevere lay late into the morn	D2
Lost in sweet dreams and dreaming of her love	C2
For Lancelot and forgetful of the hunt	F
But rose at last a single maiden with her	R
Took horse and forded Usk and gained the wood	F
There on a little knoll beside it stayed	F
Waiting to hear the hounds but heard instead	F
A sudden sound of hoofs for Prince Geraint	F
Late also wearing neither hunting dress	V
Nor weapon save a golden hilted brand	F
Came quickly flashing through the shallow ford	F
Behind them and so galloped up the knoll	X2
A purple scarf at either end whereof	C2
There swung an apple of the purest gold	F
Swayed round about him as he galloped up	Y2
To join them glancing like a dragon fly	H
In summer suit and silks of holiday	F
Low bowed the tributary Prince and she	V
Sweet and statelily and with all grace	V
Of womanhood and queenhood answered him	I
'Late late Sir Prince ' she said 'later than we '	-
'Yea noble Queen ' he answered 'and so late	F
That I but come like you to see the hunt	F
Not join it ' 'Therefore wait with me ' she said	F
'For on this little knoll if anywhere	R
There is good chance that we shall hear the hounds	V
Here often they break covert at our feet '	-
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And while they listened for the dist	F

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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