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'O for a knight like Bayard	A
Without reproach or fear	B
My light glove on his casque of steel	C
My love knot on his spear	B
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'O for the white plume floating	D
Sad Zutphen's field above	E
The lion heart in battle	F
The woman's heart in love	E
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'O that man once more were manly	G
Woman's pride and not her scorn	H
That once more the pale young mother	I
Dared to boast a man is born'	H
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'But now life's slumberous current	J
No sun bowed cascade wakes	K
No tall heroic manhood	L
The level dulness breaks	K
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'O for a knight like Bayard	A
Without reproach or fear	B
My light glove on his casque of steel	C
My love knot on his spear '	-
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Then I said my own heart throbbing	D
To the time her proud pulse beat	M
'Life hath its regal natures yet	N
True tender brave and sweet	M
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'Smile not fair unbeliever	B
One man at least I know	H
Who might wear the crest of Bayard	A
Or Sydney's plume of snow	H
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'Once when over purple mountains	O
Died away the Grecian sun	H
And the far Cyllenian ranges	P
Paled and darkened one by one	H
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'Fell the Turk a bolt of thunder	B
Cleaving all the quiet sky	Q
And against his sharp steel lightnings	R
Stood the Suliote but to die	Q
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'Woe for the weak and halting	D
The crescent blazed behind	S
A curving line of sabres	T
Like fire before the wind	S
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'Last to fly and first to rally	G
Rode he of whom I speak	U
When groaning in his bridle path	V
Sank down like a wounded Greek	U
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'With the rich Albanian costume	W
Wet with many a ghastly stain	H
Gazing on earth and sky as one	H
Who might not gaze again	H
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'He looked forward to the mountains	O
Back on foes that never spare	B
Then flung him from his saddle	F
And place the stranger there	B
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''Allah hu ' Through flashing sabres	T
Through a stormy hail of lead	X
The good Thessalian charger	B
Up the slopes of olives sped	X
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'Hot spurred the turbaned riders	T
He almost felt their breath	Y
Where a mountain stream rolled darkly down	H
Between the hills and death	Y
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'One brave and manful struggle	F
He gained the solid land	Z
And the cover of the mountains	O
And the carbines of his band '	-
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'It was very great and noble '	-
Said the moist eyed listener then	H
'But one brave deed makes no hero	H
Tell me what he since hath been '	-
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'Still a brave and generous manhood	L
Still and honor without stain	H
In the prison of the Kaiser	B
By the barricades of Seine	G
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'But dream not helm and harness	A2
The sign of valor true	B
Peace bath higher tests of manhood	L
Than battle ever knew	B
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'Wouldst know him now Behold him	B2
The Cadmus of the blind	S
Giving the dumb lip language	C2
The idiot clay a mind	S
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'Walking his round of duty	G
Serenely day by day	D2
With the strong man's hand of labor	B
And childhood's heart of play	D2
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'True as the knights of story	G
Sir Lancelot and his peers	E2
Brave in his calm endurance	F2
As they in tilt of spears	E2
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'As waves in stillest waters	T
As stars in noonday skies	G2
All that wakes to noble action	H
In his noon of calmness lies	G2
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'Wherever outraged Nature	B
Asks word or action brave	H2
Wherever struggles labor	B
Wherever groans a slave	H2
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'Wherever rise the peoples	I2
Wherever sinks a throne	H
The throbbing heart of Freedom finds	J2
An answer in his own	H
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'Knight of a better era	B
Without reproach or fear	B
Said I not well that Bayards	J2
And Sidneys still are here	B

John Greenleaf Whittier

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