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Pearl of delight that a prince doth please	A
To grace in gold enclosed so clear	B
I vow that from over orient seas	A
Never proved I any in price her peer	B
So round so radiant ranged by these	A
So fine so smooth did her sides appear	B
That ever in judging gems that please	A
Her only alone I deemed as dear	B
Alas I lost her in garden near	B
Through grass to the ground from me it shot	C
I pine now oppressed by love wound drear	B
For that pearl mine own without a spot	C
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Since in that spot it sped from me	D
I have looked and longed for that precious thing	E
That me once was wont from woe to free	D
To uplift my lot and healing bring	E
But my heart doth hurt now cruelly	D
My breast with burning torment sting	E
Yet in secret hour came soft to me	D
The sweetest song I e'er heard sing	E
Yea many a thought in mind did spring	E
To think that her radiance in clay should rot	C
O mould Thou marrest a lovely thing	E
My pearl mine own without a spot	C
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In that spot must needs be spices spread	F
Where away such wealth to waste hath run	G
Blossoms pale and blue and red	F
There shimmer shining in the sun	G
No flower nor fruit their hue may shed	F
Where it down into darkling earth was done	G
For all grass must grow from grains that are dead	F
No wheat would else to barn be won	G
From good all good is ever begun	G
And fail so fair a seed could not	C
So that sprang and sprouted spices none	G
From that precious pearl without a spot	C
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That spot whereof I speak I found	H
When I entered in that garden green	I
As August's season high came round	H
When corn is cut with sickles keen	I
There where that pearl rolled down a mound	H
With herbs was shadowed fair and sheen	I
With gillyflower ginger and gromwell crowned	H
And peonies powdered all between	I
If sweet was all that there was seen	I
Fair too a fragrance flowed I wot	H
Where dwells that dearest as I ween	I
My precious pearl without a spot	H
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By that spot my hands I wrung dismayed	H
For care full cold that had me caught	H
A hopeless grief on my heart was laid	H
Though reason to reconcile me sought	H
For my pearl there prisoned a plaint I made	H
In fierce debate unmoved I fought	H
Be comforted Christ Himself me bade	H
But in woe my will ever strove distraught	H
On the flowery plot I fell methought	H
Such odour through my senses shot	H
I slipped and to sudden sleep was brought	H
O'er that precious pearl without a spot	H
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From that spot my spirit sprang apace	J
On the turf my body abode in trance	K
My would was gone by God's own grace	J
Adventuring where marvels chance	K
I knew not where in the world was that place	J
Save by cloven cliffs was set my stance	K
And towards a forest I turned my face	J
Where rocks in splendour met my glance	K
From them did a glittering glory lance	K
None could believe the light they lent	H
Never webs were woven in mortal haunts	L
Of half such wealth and wonderment	H
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Wondrous was made each mountain side	H
With crystal cliffs so clear of hue	M
About them woodlands bright lay wide	H
As Indian dye their boles were blue	M
The leaves did as burnished silver slide	H
That thick upon twigs were trembling grew	M
When glades let light upon them glide	H
They shone with a shimmer of dazzling hue	M
The gravel on ground that I trod with shoe	M
Was of precious pearls of Orient	H
Sunbeams are blear and dark to view	M
Compared with that fair wonderment	H
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In wonder at those fells so fair	B
My soul all grief forgot let fall	N
Odours so fresh of fruits there were	B
I was fed as by food celestial	O
In the woods the birds did wing and pair	B
Of flaming hues both great and small	N
But cithern string and gittern player	B
Their merry mirth could ne'er recall	N
For when the beat their pinions all	N
In harmony their voices bent	H
No delight more lovely could men enthrall	N
Than behold and hear that wonderment	H
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Thus arrayed was all in wonderment	H
That forest where forth my fortune led	H
No man its splendour to present	H
With tongue could worthy words have said	H
I walked ever onward well content	H
No hill was so tall that it stayed my tread	H
More fair the further afield I went	H
Were plants and fruits and spices spread	H
Through hedge and mead lush waters led	H
As in strands of gold there steeply pent	H
A river I reached in cloven bed	H
O Lord the wealth of its wonderment	H
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The adornments of that wondrous deep	P
Were beauteous banks of beryl bright	H
Swirling sweetly its waters sweep	P
Ever rippling on in murmurous flight	H
In the depths stood dazzling stones aheap	P
As a glitter through glass that glowed with light	H
As streaming stars when on earth men sleep	P
Stare in the welkin in winter night	H
For emerald sapphire or jewel bright	H
Was every pebble in pool there pent	H
And the water was lit with rays of light	H
Such wealth was in its wonderment	H
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The wonderous wealth of down and dales	Q
of wood and water and lordly plain	I
My mirth makes mount my mourning fails	Q
My care is quelled and cured my pain	I
Then down a stream that strongly sails	Q
I blissful turn with teeming brain	I
The further I follow those flowing vales	Q
The more strength of joy my heart doth strain	I
As fortune fares where she doth deign	I
Whether gladness she gives or grieving sore	B
So he who may her graces gain	I
His hap is to have ever more and more	B
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There more was of such marvels thrice	R
Than I could tell though I long delayed	H
For earthly heart could not suffice	R
For a tithe of the joyful joys displayed	H
Therefore I thought that Paradise	R
Across those banks was yonder laid	H
I weened that the water by device	R
As bounds between pleasances was made	H
Beyond that stream by steep or slade	H
That city's walls I weened must soar	B
But the water was deep I dared not wade	H
And ever I longed to more and more	B
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More and more and yet still more	B
I fain beyond the stream had scanned	H
For fair as was this hither shore	B
Far lovelier was the further land	H
To find a ford I did then explore	B
And round about did stare and stand	H
But perils pressed in sooth more sore	B
The further I strode along the strand	H
I should not I thought by fear be banned	H
From delights so lovely that lay in store	B
But a happening new then came to hand	H
That moved my mind ever more and more	B
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A marvel more did my mind amaze	S
I saw beyond that border bright	H
From a crystal cliff the lucent rays	S
And beams in splendour lift their light	H
A child abode there at its base	J
She wore a gown of glistening white	H
A gentle maid of courtly grace	J
Erewhile I had known her well by sight	H
As shredded gold that glistered bright	H
She shone in beauty upon the shore	B
Long did my glance on her alight	H
And the longer I looked I knew her more	B
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The more I that face so fair surveyed	H
When upon her gracious form I gazed	H
Such gladdening glory upon me played	H
As my wont was seldom to see upraised	H
Desire to call her then me swayed	H
But dumb surprise my mind amazed	H
In place so strange I saw that maid	H
The blow might well my wits have crazed	H
Her forehead fair then up she raised	H
That hue of polished ivory wore	B
It smote my heart distraught and dazed	H
And ever the longer the more and more	B
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More than I would my dread did rise	T
I stood there still and dared not call	N
With closed mouth and open eyes	T
I stood as tame as hawk in hall	N
A ghost was present I did surmise	T
And feared for what might then befall	N
Lest she should flee before mine eyes	T
Ere I to tryst could her recall	N
So smooth so seemly slight and small	N
That flawless fair and mirthful maid	H
Arose in robes majestical	N
A precious gem in pearls arrayed	H
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There pearls arrayed and royally dight	H
Might one have seen by fortune graced	H
When fresh as flower de luces bright	H
She down to the water swiftly paced	H
In linen robe of glistening white	H
With open sides that seams enlaced	H
With the merriest margery pearls my sight	H
Ever before I vow had traced	H
Her sleeves hung long below her waist	H
Adorned with pearls in double braid	H
Her kir	B