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Lancelot looked about him but he saw	A
No Guinevere The place where she had sat	B
Was now an empty chair that might have been	C
The shadowy throne of an abandoned world	D
But for the living fragrance of a kiss	E
That he remembered and a living voice	F
That hovered when he saw that she was gone	G
There was too much remembering while he felt	H
Upon his cheek the warm sound of her words	I
There was too much regret there was too much	J
Remorse Regret was there for what had gone	G
Remorse for what had come Yet there was time	K
That had not wholly come There was time enough	L
Between him and the night as there were shoals	M
Enough no doubt that in the sea somewhere	N
Were not yet hidden by the drowning tide	O
So there is here between me and the dark	P
Some twilight left he said He sighed and said	Q
Again Time tide and twilight and the dark	P
And then for me the Light But what for her	R
I do not think of anything but life	S
That I may give to her by going now	T
And if I look into her eyes again	U
Or feel her breath upon my face again	U
God knows if I may give so much as life	S
Or if the durance of her loneliness	V
Would have it for the asking What am I	W
What have I seen that I must leave behind	X
So much of heaven and earth to burn itself	Y
Away in white and gold until in time	K
There shall be no more white and no more gold	Z
I cannot think of such a time as that	B
I cannot yet I must for I am he	A2
That shall have hastened it and hurried on	B2
To dissolution all that wonderment	C2
That envy of all women who have said	Q
She was a child of ice and ivory	A2
And of all men save one And who is he	A2
Who is this Lancelot that has betrayed	D2
His King and served him with a cankered honor	R
Who is this Lancelot that sees the Light	E2
And waits now in the shadow for the dark	P
Who is this King this Arthur who believes	F2
That what has been and is will be for ever	R
Who has no eyes for what he will not see	A2
And will see nothing but what's passing here	G2
In Camelot which is passing Why are we here	G2
What are we doing kings queens Camelots	A2
And Lancelots And what is this dim world	D
That I would leave and cannot leave tonight	E2
Because a Queen is in it and a King	H2
Has gone away to some place where there's hunting	H2
Carleon or Carlisle Who is this Queen	I2
This pale witch wonder of white fire and gold	Z
This Guinevere that I brought back with me	A2
From Cameliard for Arthur who knew then	U
What Merlin told as he forgets it now	T
And rides away from her God watch the world	D
To some place where there's hunting What are kings	A2
And how much longer are there to be kings	A2
When are the millions who are now like worms	A2
To know that kings are worms if they are worms	A2
When are the women who make toys of men	U
To know that they themselves are less than toys	A2
When Time has laid upon their skins the touch	J
Of his all shrivelling fingers When are they	J2
To know that men must have an end of them	K2
When men have seen the Light and left the world	D
That I am leaving now Yet here I am	L2
And all because a king has gone a hunting	H2
Carleon or Carlisle	M2
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So Lancelot	N2
Fed with a sullen rancor which he knew	O2
To be as false as he was to the King	H2
The passion and the fear that now in him	P2
Were burning like two slow infernal fires	A2
That only flight and exile far away	J2
From Camelot should ever cool again	U
Yet here I am he said and here I am	L2
Time tide and twilight and there is no twilight	E2
And there is not much time But there's enough	L
To eat and drink in and there may be time	K
For me to frame a jest or two to prove	Q2
How merry a man may be who sees the Light	E2
And I must get me up and go along	R2
Before the shadows blot out everything	H2
And leave me stumbling among skeletons	A2
God what a rain of ashes falls on him	P2
Who sees the new and cannot leave the old	Z
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He rose and looked away into the south	S2
Where a gate was by which he might go out	T2
Now if he would while Time was yet there with him	P2
Time that was tearing minutes out of life	S
While he stood shivering in his loneliness	A2
And while the silver lights of memory	A2
Shone faintly on a far off eastern shore	U2
Where he had seen on earth for the last time	K
The triumph and the sadness in the face	A2
Of Galahad for whom the Light was waiting	H2
Now he could see the face of him again	U
He fancied and his flickering will adjured him	P2
To follow it and be free He followed it	V2
Until it faded and there was no face	A2
And there was no more light Yet there was time	K
That had not come though he could hear it now	T
Like ruining feet of marching conquerors	A2
That would be coming soon and were not men	U
Forlornly and unwillingly he came back	W2
To find the two dim chairs In one of them	K2
Was Guinevere and on her phantom face	A2
There fell a golden light that might have been	C
The changing gleam of an unchanging gold	Z
That was her golden hair He sprang to touch	J
The wonder of it but she too was gone	G
Like Galahad he was alone again	U
With shadows and one face that he still saw	A2
The world had no more faces now than one	X2
That for a moment with a flash of pain	Y2
Had shown him what it is that may be seen	I2
In embers that break slowly into dust	Z2
Where for a time was fire He saw it there	N
Before him and he knew it was not good	A3
That he should learn so late and of this hour	R
What men may leave behind them in the eyes	A2
Of women who have nothing more to give	B3
And may not follow after Once again	U
He gazed away to southward but the face	A2
Of Galahad was not there He turned and saw	A2
Before him in the distance many lights	A2
In Arthur's palace for the dark had come	C3
To Camelot while Time had come and gone	G

Edwin Arlington Robinson

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