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Morn in the wake of the morning star	A
Came furrowing all the orient into gold	B
We rose and each by other drest with care	C
Descended to the court that lay three parts	D
In shadow but the Muses' heads were touched	E
Above the darkness from their native East	F
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There while we stood beside the fount and watched	G
Or seemed to watch the dancing bubble approached	H
Melissa tinged with wan from lack of sleep	I
Or grief and glowing round her dewy eyes	J
The circled Iris of a night of tears	K
'And fly ' she cried 'O fly while yet you may	L
My mother knows ' and when I asked her 'how '	-
'My fault' she wept 'my fault and yet not mine	M
Yet mine in part O hear me pardon me	N
My mother 'tis her wont from night to night	O
To rail at Lady Psyche and her side	P
She says the Princess should have been the Head	Q
Herself and Lady Psyche the two arms	R
And so it was agreed when first they came	S
But Lady Psyche was the right hand now	T
And the left or not or seldom used	U
Hers more than half the students all the love	V
And so last night she fell to canvass you	W
Her countrywomen she did not envy her	X
Who ever saw such wild barbarians	Y
Girls more like men and at these words the snake	Z
My secret seemed to stir within my breast	A2
And oh Sirs could I help it but my cheek	B2
Began to burn and burn and her lynx eye	C2
To fix and make me hotter till she laughed	D2
O marvellously modest maiden you	W
Men girls like men why if they had been men	E2
You need not set your thoughts in rubric thus	F2
For wholesale comment Pardon I am shamed	G2
That I must needs repeat for my excuse	H2
What looks so little graceful men for still	I2
My mother went revolving on the word	J2
And so they are very like men indeed	K2
And with that woman closeted for hours	L2
Then came these dreadful words out one by one	M2
Why these are men I shuddered and you know it	N2
O ask me nothing I said And she knows too	W
And she conceals it So my mother clutched	E
The truth at once but with no word from me	N
And now thus early risen she goes to inform	O2
The Princess Lady Psyche will be crushed	P2
But you may yet be saved and therefore fly	C2
But heal me with your pardon ere you go '	-
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'What pardon sweet Melissa for a blush '	-
Said Cyril 'Pale one blush again than wear	C
Those lilies better blush our lives away	L
Yet let us breathe for one hour more in Heaven'	M2
He added 'lest some classic Angel speak	B2
In scorn of us They mounted Ganymedes	L2
To tumble Vulcans on the second morn	M2
But I will melt this marble into wax	L2
To yield us farther furlough ' and he went	Q2
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Melissa shook her doubtful curls and thought	R2
He scarce would prosper 'Tell us ' Florian asked	S2
'How grew this feud betwixt the right and left '	-
'O long ago ' she said 'betwixt these two	W
Division smoulders hidden 'tis my mother	X
Too jealous often fretful as the wind	T2
Pent in a crevice much I bear with her	X
I never knew my father but she says	L2
God help her she was wedded to a fool	U2
And still she railed against the state of things	L2
She had the care of Lady Ida's youth	V2
And from the Queen's decease she brought her up	W2
But when your sister came she won the heart	X2
Of Ida they were still together grew	W
For so they said themselves inosculated	X2
Consonant chords that shiver to one note	X2
One mind in all things yet my mother still	I2
Affirms your Psyche thieved her theories	L2
And angled with them for her pupil's love	V
She calls her plagiarist I know not what	X2
But I must go I dare not tarry ' and light	X2
As flies the shadow of a bird she fled	X2
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Then murmured Florian gazing after her	X
'An open hearted maiden true and pure	Y2
If I could love why this were she how pretty	X2
Her blushing was and how she blushed again	M2
As if to close with Cyril's random wish	Z2
Not like your Princess crammed with erring pride	X2
Nor like poor Psyche whom she drags in tow '	-
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'The crane ' I said 'may chatter of the crane	M2
The dove may murmur of the dove but I	C2
An eagle clang an eagle to the sphere	A3
My princess O my princess true she errs	L2
But in her own grand way being herself	B3
Three times more noble than three score of men	M2
She sees herself in every woman else	L2
And so she wears her error like a crown	M2
To blind the truth and me for her and her	X
Hebes are they to hand ambrosia mix	L2
The nectar but ah she whene'er she moves	L2
The Samian Her rises and she speaks	L2
A Memnon smitten with the morning Sun '	-
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So saying from the court we paced and gained	X2
The terrace ranged along the Northern front	X2
And leaning there on those balusters high	C2
Above the empurpled champaign drank the gale	C3
That blown about the foliage underneath	D3
And sated with the innumerable rose	L2
Beat balm upon our eyelids Hither came	S
Cyril and yawning 'O hard task ' he cried	X2
'No fighting shadows here I forced a way	L
Through opposition crabbed and gnarled	X2
Better to clear prime forests heave and thump	E3
A league of street in summer solstice down	M2
Than hammer at this reverend gentlewoman	M2
I knocked and bidden entered found her there	C
At point to move and settled in her eyes	L2
The green malignant light of coming storm	O2
Sir I was courteous every phrase well oiled	X2
As man's could be yet maiden meek I prayed	X2
Concealment she demanded who we were	X
And why we came I fabled nothing fair	C
But your example pilot told her all	F3
Up went the hushed amaze of hand and eye	C2
But when I dwelt upon your old affiance	L2
She answered sharply that I talked astray	L
I urged the fierce inscription on the gate	X2
And our three lives True we had limed ourselves	L2
With open eyes and we must take the chance	L2
But such extremes I told her well might harm	G3
The woman's cause Not more than now she said	X2
So puddled as it is with favouritism	G3
I tried the mother's heart Shame might befall	F3
Melissa knowing saying not she knew	W
Her answer was Leave me to deal with that	X2
I spoke of war to come and many deaths	L2
And she replied her duty was to speak	B2
And duty duty clear of consequences	L2
I grew discouraged Sir but since I knew	W
No rock so hard but that a little wave	H3
May beat admission in a thousand years	L2
I recommenced Decide not ere you pause	L2
I find you here but in the second place	L2
Some say the third the authentic foundress you	W
I offer boldly we will seat you highest	X2
Wink at our advent help my prince to gain	M2
His rightful bride and here I promise you	W
Some palace in our land where you shall reign	M2
The head and heart of all our fair she world	X2
And your great name flow on with broadening time	G3
For ever Well she balanced this a little	I3
And told me she would answer us today	L
meantime be mute thus much nor more I gained '	-
	-
He ceasing came a message from the Head	X2
'That afternoon the Princess rode to take	Z
The dip of certain strata to the North	J3
Would we go with her we should find the land	X2
Worth seeing and the river made a fall	F3
Out yonder ' then she pointed on to where	C
A double hill ran up his furrowy forks	L2
Beyond the thick leaved platans of the vale	C3
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Agreed to this the day fled on through all	F3
Its range of duties to the appointed hour	X
Then summoned to the porch we went She stood	X2
Among her maidens higher by the head	X2
Her back against a pillar her foot on one	M2
Of those tame leopards Kittenlike he rolled	X2
And pawed about her sandal I drew near	A3
I gazed On a sudden my strange seizure came	G3
Upon me the weird vision of our house	L2
The Princess Ida seemed a hollow show	K3
Her gay furred cats a painted fantasy	L2
Her college and her maidens empty masks	L2
And I myself the shadow of a dream	G3
For all things were and were not Yet I felt	X2
My heart beat thick with passion and with awe	L3
Then from my breast the involuntary sigh	C2
Brake as she smote me with the light of eyes	L2
That lent my knee desire to kneel and shook	M3
My pulses till to horse we got and so	K3
Went forth in long retinue following up	W2
The river as it narrowed to the hills	L2
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I rode beside	X2

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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