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A king estranged from his loving Queen	A
By a foolish royal whim	B
Tired and sick of the dull routine	A
Of matters surrounding him	B
Issued a mandate in this wise	C
'THE DOWER OF MY DAUGHTER'S HAND	D
I WILL GIVE TO HIM WHO HOLDS THIS PRIZE	C
THE STRANGEST THING IN THE LAND '	E
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But the King sad sooth in this grim decree	F
Had a motive low and mean	A
'Twas a royal piece of chicanery	F
To harry and spite the Queen	A
For King though he was and beyond compare	G
He had ruled all things save one	H
Then blamed the Queen that his only heir	G
Was a daughter not a son	H
	-
The girl had grown in the mother's care	G
Like a bud in the shine and shower	I
That drinks of the wine of the balmy air	G
Till it blooms into matchless flower	I
Her waist was the rose's stem that bore	J
The flower and the flower's perfume	K
That ripens on till it bulges o'er	I
With its wealth of bud and bloom	K
	-
And she had a lover lowly sprung	L
But a purer nobler heart	M
Never spake in a courtlier tongue	L
Or wooed with a dearer art	M
And the fair pair paled at the King's decree	F
But the smiling Fates contrived	N
To have them wed in a secrecy	F
That the Queen HERSELF connived	N
	-
While the grim King's heralds scoured the land	N
And the countries roundabout	N
Shouting aloud at the King's command	N
A challenge to knave or lout	N
Prince or peasant 'The mighty King	O
Would have ye understand	N
That he who shows him the strangest thing	O
Shall have his daughter's hand '	-
	-
And thousands flocked to the royal throne	P
Bringing a thousand things	Q
Strange and curious One a bone	P
The hinge of a fairy's wings	Q
And one the glass of a mermaid queen	A
Gemmed with a diamond dew	N
Where down in its reflex dimly seen	A
Her face smiled out at you	N
	-
One brought a cluster of some strange date	N
With a subtle and searching tang	R
That seemed as you tasted to penetrate	N
The heart like a serpent's fang	R
And back you fell for a spell entranced	N
As cold as a corpse of stone	P
And heard your brains as they laughed and danced	N
And talked in an undertone	P
	-
One brought a bird that could whistle a tune	S
So piercingly pure and sweet	N
That tears would fall from the eyes of the moon	S
In dewdrops at its feet	N
And the winds would sigh at the sweet refrain	T
Till they swooned in an ecstacy	Q
To waken again in a hurricane	T
Of riot and jubilee	F
	-
One brought a lute that was wrought of a shell	U
Luminous as the shine	V
Of a new born star in a dewy dell	U
And its strings were strands of wine	V
That sprayed at the Fancy's touch and fused	N
As your listening spirit leant	N
Drunken through with the airs that oozed	N
From the o'ersweet instrument	N
	-
One brought a tablet of ivory	F
Whereon no thing was writ	N
But at night and the dazzled eyes would see	F
Flickering lines o'er it	N
And each as you read from the magic tome	W
Lightened and died in flame	X
And the memory held but a golden poem	Y
Too beautiful to name	X
	-
Till it seemed all marvels that ever were known	P
Or dreamed of under the sun	H
Were brought and displayed at the royal throne	P
And put by one by one	H
Till a graybeard monster came to the King	O
Haggard and wrinkled and old	N
And spread to his gaze this wondrous thing	O
A gossamer veil of gold	N
	-
Strangely marvelous mocking the gaze	Q
Like a tangle of bright sunshine	V
Dipping a million glittering rays	Q
In a baptism divine	V
And a maiden sheened in this gauze attire	I
Sifting a glance of her eye	Z
Dazzled men's souls with a fierce desire	I
To kiss and caress her and die	Z
	-
And the grim King swore by his royal beard	N
That the veil had won the prize	Q
While the gray old monster blinked and leered	N
With his lashless red rimmed eyes	Q
As the fainting form of the princess fell	U
And the mother's heart went wild	N
Throbbing and swelling a muffled knell	U
For the dead hopes of her child	N
	-
But her clouded face with a faint smile shone	P
As suddenly through the throng	A2
Pushing his way to the royal throne	P
A fair youth strode along	A2
While a strange smile hovered about his eyes	Q
As he said to the grim old King	O
'The veil of gold must lose the prize	Q
For I have a stranger thing '	-
	-
He bent and whispered a sentence brief	B2
But the monarch shook his head	N
With a look expressive of unbelief	B2
'It can't be so ' he said	N
'Or give me proof and I the King	O
Give you my daughter's hand	N
For certes THAT IS a stranger thing	O
THE STRANGEST THING IN THE LAND '	-
	-
Then the fair youth turning caught the Queen	A
In a rapturous caress	Q
While his lithe form towered in lordly mien	A
As he said in a brief address	Q
'My fair bride's mother is this and lo	C2
As you stare in your royal awe	D2
By this pure kiss do I proudly show	C2
A LOVE FOR A MOTHER IN LAW '	-
	-
Then a thaw set in the old King's mood	N
And a sweet Spring freshet came	X
Into his eyes and his heart renewed	N
Its love for the favored dame	X
But often he has been heard to declare	G
That 'he never could clearly see	F
How in the deuce such a strange affair	G
Could have ended so happily '	-

James Whitcomb Riley

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