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What shall I be I will be a knight	A
Walled up in armour black	B
With a sword of sharpness a hammer of might	A
And a spear that will not crack	B
So black so blank no glimmer of light	A
Will betray my darkling track	B
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Saddle my coal black steed my men	C
Fittest for sunless work	D
Old Night is steaming from her den	C
And her children gather and lurk	D
Bad things are creeping from the fen	C
And sliding down the murk	D
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Let him go let him go Let him plunge Keep away	E
He's a foal of the third seal's brood	F
Gaunt with armour in grim array	E
Of poitrel and frontlet hood	G
Let him go a living castle away	E
Right for the evil wood	G
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I and Ravenwing on the course	H
Heavy in fighting gear	I
Woe to the thing that checks our force	H
That meets us in career	I
Giant enchanter devil or worse	J
What cares the couched spear	I
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Slow through the trees zigzag I ride	K
See the goblins to and fro	L
From the skull of the dark on either side	K
See the eyes of a dragon glow	L
From the thickets the silent serpents glide	K
I pass them I let them go	L
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For somewhere in the evil night	A
A little one cries alone	M
An aged knight outnumbered in fight	A
But for me will be stricken prone	M
A lady with terror is staring white	A
For her champion is overthrown	M
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The child in my arms to my hauberk prest	N
Like a trembling bird will cling	O
I will cover him over in iron nest	N
With my shield my one steel wing	O
And bear him home to his mother's breast	N
A radiant rescued thing	O
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Spur in flank and lance in rest	N
On the old knight's foes I flash	P
The caitiffs I scatter to east and west	N
With clang and hurtle and crash	P
Leave them the law as knaves learn it best	N
In bruise and breach and gash	P
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The lady I lift on my panting steed	Q
On the pommel she holds my mace	R
Hand on bridle I gently lead	S
The horse at a gentle pace	R
The thickets with martel axe I heed	Q
For the wood is an evil place	R
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What treasure is there in manly might	A
That hid in the bosom lies	T
Who for the crying will not fight	A
Had better be he that cries	T
A man is a knight that loves the right	A
And mounts for it till he dies	T
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Alas 'tis a dream of ages hoar	U
In the fens no dragons won	V
No giants from moated castles roar	U
Through the forest wide roadways run	V
Of all the deeds they did of yore	U
Not one is left to be done	V
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If I should saddle old Ravenwing	O
And hie me out at night	A
Scared little birds away would spring	O
An ill shot arrow's flight	A
The idle fancy away I fling	O
Now I will dream aright	A
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Let a youth bridle Twilight my dapple gray	E
With broad rein and snaffle bit	A
He must bring him round at break of day	E
When the shadows begin to flit	A
When the darkness begins to dream away	E
And the owls begin to sit	A
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Ungraithed in plate or mail I go	O
With only my sword gray blue	W
Like the scythe of the dawning come to mow	O
The night sprung shadows anew	W
From the gates of the east that fair and slow	O
Maid Morning may walk through	W
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I seek no forest with darkness grim	X
To the open land I ride	A
Low light from the broad horizon's brim	X
Lies wet on the flowing tide	A
And mottles with shadows dun and dim	X
The mountain's rugged side	A
	-
Steadily hasteless o'er valley and hill	Y
O'er the moor along the beach	Z
We ride nor slacken our pace until	Y
Some city of men we reach	Z
There in the market my horse stands still	Y
And I lift my voice and preach	Z
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Wealth and poverty age and youth	A2
Around me gather and throng	O
I tell them of justice of wisdom of truth	A2
Of mercy and law and wrong	O
My words are moulded by right and ruth	A2
To a solemn chanted song	O
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They bring me questions which would be scanned	A
That strife may be forgot	A
Swerves my balance to neither hand	A
The poor I favour no jot	A
If a man withstand out sweeps my brand	A
I slay him upon the spot	A
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But what if my eye have in it a beam	B2
And therefore spy his mote	A
Righteousness only wisdom supreme	B2
Can tell the sheep from the goat	A
Not thus I dream a wise man's dream	B2
Not thus take Wrong by the throat	A
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Lead Twilight home I dare not kill	Y
The sword myself would scare	C2
When the sun looks over the eastern hill	Y
Bring out my snow white mare	C2
One labour is left which no one will	Y
Deny me the right to share	C2
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Take heed my men from crest to heel	D2
Snow white have no speck	O
No curb no bit her mouth must feel	D2
No tightening rein her neck	O
No saddle girth drawn with buckle of steel	D2
Shall her mighty breathing check	O
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Lay on her a cloth of silver sheen	E2
Bring me a robe of white	A
Wherever we go we must be seen	E2
By the shining of our light	A
A glistening splendour in forest green	E2
A star on the mountain height	A
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With jar and shudder the gates unclose	T
Out in the sun she leaps	T
A unit of light and power she goes	T
Levelling vales and steeps	T
The wind around her eddies and blows	T
Before and behind her sleeps	T
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Oh joy oh joy to ride the world	A
And glad good tidings bear	C2
A flag of peace on the winds unfurled	A
Is the mane of my shining mare	C2
To the sound of her hoofs lo the dead stars hurled	A
Quivering adown the air	C2
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Oh the sun and the wind Oh the life and the love	F2
Where the serpent swung all day	E
The loud dove coos to the silent dove	F2
Where the web winged dragon lay	E
In its hole beneath on the rock above	F2
Merry tongued children play	E
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With eyes of light the maidens look up	G2
As they sit in the summer heat	A
Twining green blade with golden cup	G2
They see and they rise to their feet	A
I call aloud for I must not stop	H2
Good tidings my sisters sweet	A
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For mine is a message of holy mirth	I2
To city and land of corn	J2
Of praise for heaviness plenty for dearth	I2
For darkness a shining morn	J2
Clap hands ye billows be glad O earth	I2
For a child a child is born	J2
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Lo even the just shall live by faith	K2
None argue of mine and thine	L2
Old Self shall die an ecstatic death	M2
And be born a thing divine	L2
For God's own being and God's own breath	M2
Shall be its bread and wine	L2
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Ambition shall vanish and Love be king	O
And Pride to his darkness hie	N2
Yea for very love of a living thing	O
A man would forget and die	A
If very love were not the spring	O
Whence life springs endlessly	O2
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The myrtle shall grow where grew the thorn	J2
Earth shall be young as heaven	V
The heart with remorse or anger torn	J2
Shall weep like a summer even	P2
For to us a child a child is born	J2
Unto us a son is given	V
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Lord with thy message I dare not ride	A
I am a fool a beast	A
The little ones only from thy side	A
Go forth to publish thy feast	A
And I where but sons and daughters abide	A
Would have walked about a priest	A
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Take Snow white back to her glimmering stall	Q2
There let her stand and feed	A
I am overweening ambitious small	Q2
A creature of pride and greed	A
Let me wash the hoofs let me be the thrall	Q2
Jesus of thy white steed	A