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Gawaine Gawaine what look ye for to see	A
So far beyond the faint edge of the world	B
D ye look to see the lady Vivian	C
Pursued by divers ominous vile demons	D
That have another king more fierce than ours	E
Or think ye that if ye look far enough	F
And hard enough into the feathery west	G
Ye ll have a glimmer of the Grail itself	H
And if ye look for neither Grail nor lady	A
What look ye for to see Gawaine Gawaine	C
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So Dagonet whom Arthur made a knight	I
Because he loved him as he laughed at him	J
Intoned his idle presence on a day	K
To Gawaine who had thought himself alone	C
Had there been in him thought of anything	L
Save what was murmured now in Camelot	M
Of Merlin s hushed and all but unconfirmed	N
Appearance out of Brittany It was heard	O
At first there was a ghost in Arthur s palace	P
But soon among the scullions and anon	C
Among the knights a firmer credit held	Q
All tongues from uttering what all glances told	R
Though not for long Gawaine this afternoon	C
Fearing he might say more to Lancelot	M
Of Merlin s rumor laden resurrection	C
Than Lancelot would have an ear to cherish	S
Had sauntered off with his imagination	C
To Merlin s Rock where now there was no Merlin	C
To meditate upon a whispering town	C
Below him in the silence Once he said	T
To Gawaine You are young and that being so	U
Behold the shining city of our dreams	V
And of our King Long live the King said Gawaine	C
Long live the King said Merlin after him	J
Better for me that I shall not be King	L
Wherefore I say again Long live the King	L
And add God save him also and all kings	W
All kings and queens I speak in general	X
Kings have I known that were but weary men	C
With no stout appetite for more than peace	Y
That was not made for them Nor were they made	Z
For kings Gawaine said laughing You are young	A2
Gawaine and you may one day hold the world	B
Between your fingers knowing not what it is	B2
That you are holding Better for you and me	A
I think that we shall not be kings	W
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Gawaine	C
Remembering Merlin s words of long ago	U
Frowned as he thought and having frowned again	C
He smiled and threw an acorn at a lizard	O
There s more afoot and in the air to day	K
Than what is good for Camelot Merlin	C
May or may not know all but he said well	C2
To say to me that he would not be King	L
Nor more would I be King Far down he gazed	D2
On Camelot until he made of it	E2
A phantom town of many stillnesses	W
Not reared for men to dwell in or for kings	W
To reign in without omens and obscure	F2
Familiars to bring terror to their days	W
For though a knight and one as hard at arms	W
As any save the fate begotten few	G2
That all acknowledged or in envy loathed	H2
He felt a foreign sort of creeping up	I2
And down him as of moist things in the dark	J2
When Dagonet coming on him unawares	W
Presuming on his title of Sir Fool	K2
Addressed him and crooned on till he was done	C
What look ye for to see Gawaine Gawaine	C
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Sir Dagonet you best and wariest	H2
Of all dishonest men I look through Time	L2
For sight of what it is that is to be	A
I look to see it though I see it not	H2
I see a town down there that holds a king	L
And over it I see a few small clouds	W
Like feathers in the west as you observe	M2
And I shall see no more this afternoon	C
Than what there is around us every day	H2
Unless you have a skill that I have not	H2
To ferret the invisible for rats	W
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If you see what s around us every day	H2
You need no other showing to go mad	H2
Remember that and take it home with you	G2
And say tonight I had it of a fool	K2
With no immediate obliquity	H2
For this one or for that one or for me	A
Gawaine having risen eyed the fool curiously	A
I ll not forget I had it of a knight	H2
Whose only folly is to fool himself	H
And as for making other men to laugh	N2
And so forget their sins and selves a little	X
There s no great folly there So keep it up	I2
As long as you ve a legend or a song	O2
And have whatever sport of us you like	P2
Till havoc is the word and we fall howling	L
For I ve a guess there may not be so loud	H2
A sound of laughing here in Camelot	H2
When Merlin goes again to his gay grave	Q2
In Brittany To mention lesser terrors	W
Men say his beard is gone	C
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Do men say that	H2
A twitch of an impatient weariness	W
Played for a moment over the lean face	W
Of Dagonet who reasoned inwardly	A
The friendly zeal of this inquiring knight	H2
Will overtake his tact and leave it squealing	L
One of these days Gawaine looked hard at him	J
If I be too familiar with a fool	K2
I m on the way to be another fool	K2
He mused and owned a rueful qualm within him	J
Yes Dagonet he ventured with a laugh	N2
Men tell me that his beard has vanished wholly	A
And that he shines now as the Lord s anointed	H2
And wears the valiance of an ageless youth	R2
Crowned with a glory of eternal peace	W
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Dagonet smiling strangely shook his head	H2
I grant your valiance of a kind of youth	R2
To Merlin but your crown of peace I question	C
For though I know no more than any churl	A
Who pinches any chambermaid soever	F2
In the King s palace I look not to Merlin	C
For peace when out of his peculiar tomb	S2
He comes again to Camelot Time swings	W
A mighty scythe and some day all your peace	W
Goes down before its edge like so much clover	F2
No it is not for peace that Merlin comes	W
Without a trumpet and without a beard	H2
If what you say men say of him be true	F2
Nor yet for sudden war	F2
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Gawaine for a moment	H2
Met then the ambiguous gaze of Dagonet	H2
And making nothing of it looked abroad	H2
As if at something cheerful on all sides	W
And back again to the fool s unasking eyes	W
Well Dagonet if Merlin would have peace	W
Let Merlin stay away from Brittany	A
Said he with admiration for the man	C
Whom Folly called a fool And we have known him	J
We knew him once when he knew everything	L
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He knew as much as God would let him know	C
Until he met the lady Vivian	C
I tell you that for the world knows all that	H2
Also it knows he told the King one day	H2
That he was to be buried and alive	T2
In Brittany and that the King should see	A
The face of him no more Then Merlin sailed	H2
Away to Vivian in Broceliande	H2
Where now she crowns him and herself with flowers	W
And feeds him fruits and wines and many foods	W
Of many savors and sweet ortolans	W
Wise books of every lore of every land	H2
Are there to fill his days if he require them	U2
And there are players of all instruments	W
Flutes hautboys drums and viols and she sings	W
To Merlin till he trembles in her arms	W
And there forgets that any town alive	T2
Had ever such a name as Camelot	H2
So Vivian holds him with her love they say	W
And he who has no age has not grown old	H2
I swear to nothing but that s what they say	W
That s being buried in Broceliande	H2
For too much wisdom and clairvoyancy	W
But you and all who live Gawaine have heard	H2
This tale or many like it more than once	W
And you must know that Love when Love invites	W
Philosophy to play plays high and wins	W
Or low and loses And you say to me	A
If Merlin would have peace let Merlin stay	H2
Away from Brittany Gawaine you are young	A2
And Merlin s in his grave	Q2
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Merlin said once	W
That I was young and it s a joy for me	A
That I am here to listen while you say it	H2
Young or not young if that be burial	A
May I be buried long before I die	H2
I might be worse than young I might be old	H2
Dagonet answered and without a smile	A
Somehow I fancy Merlin saying that	H2
A fancy a mere fancy Then he smiled	H2
And such a doom as his may be for you	F2
Gawaine should your untiring divination	C
Delve in the veiled eternal mysteries	W
Too far to be a pleasure for the Lord	H2
And when you stake your wisdom for a woman	C

Edwin Arlington Robinson

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