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Sir Lamorak the man of oak and iron	A
Had with him now as a care laden guest	B
Sir Bedivere a man whom Arthur loved	C
As he had loved no man save Lancelot	D
Like one whose late flown shaft of argument	E
Had glanced and fallen afield innocuously	F
He turned upon his host a sudden eye	G
That met from Lamorak's an even shaft	H
Of native and unused authority	I
And each man held the other till at length	J
Each turned away shutting his heavy jaws	K
Again together prisoning thus two tongues	L
That might forget and might not be forgiven	M
Then Bedivere to find a plain way out	N
Said Lamorak let us drink to some one here	O
And end this dryness Who shall it be the King	P
The Queen or Lancelot Merlin Lamorak growled	Q
And then there were more wrinkles round his eyes	R
Than Bedivere had said were possible	F
There's no refusal in me now for that	S
The guest replied so Merlin' let it be	I
We've not yet seen him but if he be here	O
And even if he should not be here say Merlin '	T
They drank to the unseen from two new tankards	R
And fell straightway to sighing for the past	U
And what was yet before them Silence laid	V
A cogent finger on the lips of each	W
Impatient veteran whose hard hands lay clenched	X
And restless on his midriff until words	R
Were stronger than strong Lamorak	P
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Bedivere	O
Began the solid host you may as well	F
Say now as at another time hereafter	O
That all your certainties have bruises on 'em	Y
And all your pestilent asseverations	R
Will never make a man a salamander	O
Who's born as we are told so fire won't bite him	Z
Or a slippery queen a nun who counts and burns	R
Herself to nothing with her beads and candles	R
There's nature and what's in us to be sifted	A2
Before we know ourselves or any man	B2
Or woman that God suffers to be born	C2
That's how I speak and while you strain your mazard	A2
Like Father Jove big with a new Minerva	D2
We'll say to pass the time that I speak well	F
God's fish The King had eyes and Lancelot	A2
Won't ride home to his mother for she's dead	A2
The story is that Merlin warned the King	P
Of what's come now to pass and I believe it	A2
And Arthur he being Arthur and a king	P
Has made a more pernicious mess than one	M
We're told for being so great and amorous	R
It's that unwholesome and inclement cub	E2
Young Modred I'd see first in hell before	O
I'd hang too high the Queen or Lancelot	A2
The King if one may say it set the pace	R
And we've two strapping bastards here to prove it	A2
Young Borre he's well enough but as for Modred	A2
I squirm as often as I look at him	Z
And there again did Merlin warn the King	P
The story goes abroad and I believe it	A2
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Sir Bedivere as one who caught no more	O
Than what he would of Lamorak's outpouring	P
Inclined his grizzled head and closed his eyes	R
Before he sighed and rubbed his beard and spoke	P
For all I know to make it otherwise	R
The Queen may be a nun some day or other	O
I'd pray to God for such a thing to be	I
If prayer for that were not a mockery	I
We're late now for much praying Lamorak	P
When you and I can feel upon our faces	R
A wind that has been blowing over ruins	R
That we had said were castles and high towers	R
Till Merlin or the spirit of him came	F2
As the dead come in dreams I saw the King	P
This morning and I saw his face Therefore	O
I tell you if a state shall have a king	P
The king must have the state and be the state	A2
Or then shall we have neither king nor state	A2
But bones and ashes and high towers all fallen	M
And we shall have where late there was a kingdom	Y
A dusty wreck of what was once a glory	I
A wilderness whereon to crouch and mourn	C2
And moralize or else to build once more	O
For something better or for something worse	R
Therefore again I say that Lancelot	A2
Has wrought a potent wrong upon the King	P
And all who serve and recognize the King	P
And all who follow him and all who love him	Z
Whatever the stormy faults he may have had	A2
To look on him today is to forget them	G2
And if it be too late for sorrow now	H2
To save him for it was a broken man	B2
I saw this morning and a broken king	P
The God who sets a day for desolation	M
Will not forsake him in Avilion	M
Or whatsoever shadowy land there be	I
Where peace awaits him on its healing shores	R
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Sir Lamorak shifting in his oaken chair	O
Growled like a dog and shook himself like one	M
For the stone chested helmet cracking knight	A2
That you are known to be from Lyonnesse	R
To northward Bedivere you fol de rol	F
When days are rancid and you fiddle faddle	F
More like a woman than a man with hands	R
Fit for the smiting of a crazy giant	A2
With armor an inch thick as we all know	M
You are when you're not sermonizing at us	R
As for the King I say the King no doubt	A2
Is angry sorry and all sorts of things	R
For Lancelot and for his easy Queen	M
Whom he took knowing she'd thrown sparks already	I
On that same piece of tinder Lancelot	A2
Who fetched her with him from Leodogran	M
Because the King God save poor human reason	M
Would prove to Merlin who knew everything	P
Worth knowing in those days that he was wrong	P
I'll drink now and be quiet but by God	A2
I'll have to tell you Brother Bedivere	O
Once more to make you listen properly	I
That crowns and orders and high palaces	R
And all the manifold ingredients	R
Of this good solid kingdom where we sit	A2
And spit now at each other with our eyes	R
Will not go rolling down to hell just yet	A2
Because a pretty woman is a fool	F
And here's Kay coming with his fiddle face	R
As long now as two fiddles Sit ye down	M
Sir Man and tell us everything you know	M
Of Merlin or his ghost without a beard	A2
What mostly is it	A2
	-
Sir Kay the seneschal	F
Sat wearily while he gazed upon the two	I2
To you it mostly is if I err not	A2
That what you hear of Merlin's coming back	P
Is nothing more or less than heavy truth	J2
But ask me nothing of the Queen I say	R
For I know nothing All I know of her	O
Is what her eyes have told the silences	R
That now attend her and that her estate	A2
Is one for less complacent execration	M
Than quips and innuendoes of the city	I
Would augur for her sin if there be sin	M
Or for her name if now she have a name	F2
And where I say is this to lead the King	P
And after him the kingdom and ourselves	R
Here be we three men of a certain strength	J
And some confessed intelligence who know	M
That Merlin has come out of Brittany	I
Out of his grave as he would say it for us	R
Because the King has now a desperation	M
More strong upon him than a woman's net	A2
Was over Merlin for now Merlin's here	O
And two of us who knew him know how well	F
His wisdom if he have it any longer	O
Will by this hour have sounded and appraised	A2
The grief and wrath and anguish of the King	P
Requiring mercy and inspiring fear	O
Lest he forego the vigil now most urgent	A2
And leave unwatched a cranny where some worm	K2
Or serpent may come in to speculate	A2
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I know your worm and his worm's name is Modred	A2
Albeit the streets are not yet saying so	M
Said Lamorak as he lowered his wrath and laughed	A2
A sort of poisonous apology	I
To Kay And in the meantime I'll be gyved	A2
Here's Bedivere a wailing for the King	P
And you Kay with a moist eye for the Queen	M
I think I'll blow a horn for Lancelot	A2
For by my soul a man's in sorry case	R
When Guineveres are out with eyes to scorch him	Z
I'm not so ancient or so frozen certain	M
That I'd ride horses down to skeletons	R
If she were after me Has Merlin seen him	Z
This Lancelot this Queen fed friend of ours	R
	-
Kay answered sighing with a lonely scowl	F
The picture that I conjure leaves him out	A2
The King and Merlin are this hour together	O
And I can say no more for I know nothing	P
But how the King persuaded or beguiled	A2
The stricken wizard from across the water	O
Outriddles my poor wits It's all too strange	L2
	-
It's all too strange and half the world's half crazy	I
Roared Lamorak forgetting once again	M
The devastating carriage of his voice	R
Is the King sick he said more quietly	I
Is he to let one damned scratch be enough	M2
To paralyze the force that heretofore	O
Would operate a way through hell and iron	M
And iron already slimy with his blood	A2
Is the King blind with Modred watching him	Z
Does he forget the crown for Lancelot	A2
Does he forget that every woman mewing	P
Shall some day be a handful of small ashes	R
	-
You speak as one for whom the god of Love	N2
Has yet a mighty trap in preparation	M
We know you Lamorak said Bedivere	O
We know you for a short man Lamorak	P
In deeds if not in inches or in words	R
But there are fens and heights and distances	R
That your capricious ranging has not yet	A2
Essayed in this weird region of man's love	N2
Forgive me Lamorak but your words are words	R
Your deeds are what they are and ages hence	R
Will men remember your illustriousness	R
If there be gratitude in history	O
For me I see the shadow of the end	A2
Wherein to serve King Arthur to the end	A2
And if God have it so to see the Grail	F
Before I die	A2
	-
But Lamorak shook his head	A2
See what you will or what you may For me	O
I see no other than a stinking mess	R
With Modred stirring it and Agravaine	M
Spattering Camelot with as much of it	A2
As he can throw The Devil got somehow	H2
Into God's workshop once upon a time	O2
And out of the red clay that he found there	O
He made a shape like Modred and another	O
As like as eyes are to this Agravaine	M
I never made 'em ' said the good Lord God	A2
But let 'em go and see what comes of 'em '	-
And that's what we're to do As for the Grail	F
I've never worried it and so the Grail	F
Has never worried me	O
	-
Kay sighed I see	O
With Bedivere the coming of the end	A2
He murmured for the King I saw today	A2
Was not nor shall he ever be again	M
The King we knew I say the King is dead	A2
The man is living but the King is dead	A2
The wheel is broken	M
	-
Faugh said Lamorak	P
There are no dead kings yet in Camelot	A2
But there is Modred who is hatching ruin	M
And when it hatches I may not be here	O
There's Gawaine too and he does not forget	A2
My father who killed his King Arthur's house	R
Has more divisions in it than I like	P
In houses and if Modred's aim be good	A2
For backs like mine I'm not long for the scene	M