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Wild across the Breton country	A
Fabled centuries ago	B
Riding from the black sea border	C
Came the squadrons of the snow	B
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Piping dread at every latch hole	D
Moaning death at every sill	E
The white Yule came down in vengeance	F
Upon Ys and had its will	E
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Walled and dreamy stood the city	A
Wide and dazzling shone the sea	A
When the gods set hand to smother	C
Ys the pride of Brittany	A
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Morning drenched her towers in purple	G
Light of heart were king and fool	H
Fair forebode the merrymaking	B
Of the seven days of Yule	H
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Laughed the king Once more my mistress	I
Time and place and joy are one	J
Bade the balconies with banners	K
Match the splendor of the sun	J
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Eyes of urchins shine with silver	C
And with gold the pavement ring	B
Bade the war horns sound their bravest	L
In The Mistress of the King	B
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Mountebanks and ballad mongers	K
And all strolling traffickers	K
Should block up the market corners	K
With none other name than hers	K
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Laughed the fool To day my Folly	A
Thou shalt be the king of Ys	K
O wise fool How long must wisdom	M
Under motley hold her peace	K
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Then the storm came down The valleys	K
Wailed and ciphered to the dune	N
Like huge organ pipes a midnight	O
Stalked those gala streets at noon	N
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And the sea rose rocked and tilted	P
Like a beaker in the hand	Q
Till the moon hung tide broke tether	C
And stampeded in for land	Q
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All day long with doom portentous	K
Shreds of pennons shrieked and flew	R
Over Ys and black fear shuddered	S
On the hearthstone all night through	R
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Fear which freezes up the marrow	B
Of the heart from door to door	T
Like a plague went through the city	A
And filled up the devil's score	T
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Filled her tally of the craven	J
To the sea wind's dismal note	U
While a panic superstition	J
Took the people by the throat	U
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As with morning still the sea rose	K
With vast wreckage on the tide	V
And their pasture rills grown rivers	K
Thundered in the mountain side	V
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Vengeance vengeance gods to vengeance	K
Rose a storm of muttering	B
And the human flood came pouring	B
To the palace of the king	B
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Save O king before we perish	W
In the whirlpools of the sea	A
Ys thy city us thy people	G
Growled the king then What would ye	A
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But his wolf's eyes talked defiance	K
And his bearded mouth meant scorn	X
O our king the gods are angry	A
And no longer to be borne	X
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Is the shameless face that greets us	K
From thy windows at thy side	V
Smiling infamy And therefore	T
Thou shall take her up and ride	V
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Down with her into the sea's mouth	Y
And there leave her else we die	Z
And thy name goes down to story	A
A new word for cruelty	A
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Ah but she was fair this woman	J
Warm and flaxen waved her hair	A2
Her blue Breton eyes made summer	C
In that bleak December air	A2
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There she stood whose burning beauty	A
Made the world's high roof tree ring	B
A white poppy tall and wind blown	B2
In the garden of the king	B
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Her throat shook but not with terror	C
Her eyes swam but not with fear	C2
While her two hands caught and clung to	R
The one man they had found dear	C2
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Lord and lover thus she smiled him	D2
Her last word it shall be so	B
Only the sea's arms shall hold me	A
When from out thine arms I go	B
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Swore he By the gods my mistress	K
Thou shall have queen's burial	G
Pearls and amber shall thy tomb be	A
Shot with gold and green thy pall	E2
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And a million throated chorus	K
Shall take up thy dirge to night	O
Where thy slumber's starry watch fires	K
Shall a thousand years be bright	O
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Then they brought the coal black stallion	J
Chafing on the bit Astride	V
Sprang the young king shouted Way there	A2
Caught the girl up to his side	V
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And a path through that scared rabble	G
Rode in pageant to the sea	A
And the coal black mane was mingled	F2
With gold hair against his knee	A
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Sure as the wild gulls make seaward	S
From the west gate to the beach	G2
Rode these two for whom now freedom	M
Landward lay beyond their reach	G2
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And the great horse scenting peril	G
Snorted at the flying spume	M
Flicked with courage as how often	J
When the tides were racing doom	M
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Ridden he had plunged to rescue	R
From that seething icy hell	H2
Some poor sailor wrecked a fishing	B
On the coast What fears should quell	H2
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That high spirit Knee to shoulder	C
King and stallion reared and sprang	B
Clear above the long white combers	A
And that turmoil's iron clang	B
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What a launching For a moment	I2
While the tempest held its breath	J2
And a thousand eyes looked wonder	C
Swimming in that trough of death	J2
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Steering seaward through the welter	C
Ere they settled out of sight	O
Waved above them one gold streamer	C
Valor bid the world good night	O
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Not a trace while the long summers	A
Warm the heart of Brittany	A
Save one stone of Ys as remnant	I2
For a white mark in the sea	A

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