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A play in one act	A
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The Knight	B
The Lady	C
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Voices of men and women on the ground at the foot of the tower	D
The voice of the Knight's Page	E
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The top of a high battlemented tower of a castle A stone ledge	F
which serves as a seat extends part way around the parapet	G
Small clouds float by in the blue sky and occasionally a swallow passes	H
Entrance R from an unseen stairway which is supposed to extend around	I
the outside of the tower	D
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The Lady unseen	J
Oh do not climb so fast for I am faint	K
With looking down the tower to where the earth	L
Lies dreaming in the sun I fear to fall	M
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The Knight unseen	J
Lean on me love my love and look not down	N
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Call me not love call me your conquered foe	O
That now since you have battered down her gates	P
Gives you the keys that lock the highest tower	D
And mounts with you to prove her homage true	Q
Oh bid me go no farther lest I fall	M
My foot has slipped upon the rain worn stones	R
Why are the stairs so narrow and so steep	S
Let us go back my lord	T
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K	-
Are you afraid	U
Who were so dauntless till the walls gave way	-
Courage my sweet I would that I could climb	V
A thousand times by wind swept stairs like these	W
That lead so near to heaven	X
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L	-
Sir you may	-
You are a knight and very valorous	W
I am a woman I shall never come	Y
This way but once	W
The Knight and the Lady appear on the top of the tower	D
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K	-
Kiss me at last my love	Z
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L	-
Oh my sweet lord I am too tired to kiss	W
Look how the earth is like an emerald	A2
With rivers veined and flawed with fallow fields	W
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K Lifting her veil	B2
Then I kiss you a thousand thousand kisses	W
For all the days ere I had won to you	Q
Beyond the walls and gates you barred so close	W
Call me at last your love your castle's lord	T
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L After a pause	W
I love you	Q
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She kisses him Her veil blows away like a white butterfly	C2
over the parapet Faint cries and laughter from men and women	X
under the tower	D
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Men and Women	X
The veil the lady's veil	B2
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The knight takes the lady in his arms	W
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L	-
My lord I pray you loose me from your arms	W
Lest that my people see how much we love	Z
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K	-
May they not see us All of them have loved	D2
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L	-
But you have been an enemy my lord	T
With walls between us and with moss grown moats	W
Now on a sudden must I kiss your mouth	E2
I who was taught before I learned to speak	F2
That all my house was hostile unto yours	W
Now can I put my head against your breast	G2
Here in the sight of all who choose to come	Y
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K	-
Are we not past the caring for their eyes	W
And nearer to the heaven than to earth	L
Look up and see	W
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L	-
I only see your face	W
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She touches his hair with her hands Murmuring under the tower	D
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K	-
Why came we here in all the noon day light	B
With only darting swallows over us	W
To make a speck of darkness on the sun	X
Let us go down where walls will shut us round	I
Your castle has a hundred quiet halls	W
A hundred chambers where the shadows lie	C2
On things put by forgotten long ago	O
Forgotten lutes with strings that Time has slackened	H2
We two shall draw them close and bid them sing	I2
Forgotten games forgotten books still open	X
Where you had laid them by at vesper time	V
And your embroidery whereon half worked	J2
Weeps Amor wounded by a rose's thorn	K2
Shall I not see the room in which you slept	L2
Palpitant still and breathing of your thoughts	W
Where maiden dreams adown the ways of sleep	S
Swept noiselessly with damosels and knights	W
To tourneys where the trumpet made no sound	I
Blow as he might the scarlet trumpeter	D
And were the dreams not sometimes brimmed with tears	W
That waked you when the night was loneliest	I
Will you not bring me to your oratory	W
Where prayers arose like little birds set free	W
Still upward upward without sound of flight	I
Shall I not find your turrets toward the north	M2
Where you defied white winter armed for war	N2
Your southern casements where the sun blows in	O2
Between the leaf bent boughs the wind has lifted	I
Shall we not see the sunrise toward the east	I
Watch dawn by dawn the rose of day unfolding	I2
Its golden hearted beauty sovereignly	C2
And toward the west look quietly at evening	I2
Shall I not see all these and all your treasures	W
In carven coffers hidden in the dark	P2
Have you not laid a sapphire lit with flame	Q2
And amethysts set round with deep wrought gold	I
Perhaps a ruby	W
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L	C2
All my gems are yours	W
And all my chambers curtained from the sun	X
My lord shall see them all in time in time	V
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The sun begins to sink	R2
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K	-
Shall I not see them now To day to night	I
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L	C2
How could I show you in one day my lord	I
My castle and my treasures and my tower	D
Let all the days to come suffice for this	W
Since all the past days made them what they are	S2
You will not be impatient my sweet lord	I
Some of the halls have long been locked and barred	I
And some have secret doors and hard to find	I
Till suddenly you touch them unawares	W
And down a sable way runs silver light	I
We two will search together for the keys	W
But not to day Let us sit here to day	-
Since all is yours and always will be yours	W
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The stars appear faintly one by one	X
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K After a pause	W
I grow a little drowsy with the dusk	T2
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L Singing	I2
There was a man that loved a maid	I
Sleep and take your rest	I
Over her lips his kiss was laid	I
Over her heart his breast	I
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The knight sleeps	W
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All of his vows were sweet to hear	U2
Sweet was his kiss to take	V2
Why was her breast so quick to fear	W2
Why was her heart to break	V2
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Why was the man so glad to woo	Q
Sleep and take your rest	I
Why were the maiden's words so few	Q
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She sees that he is asleep and slipping off her long cloak like	X2
outer garment she pillows his head upon it against the parapet	I
and half kneeling at his feet she sings very softly	W
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I love you I love you I love you	Q
I am the flower at your feet	I
The birds and the stars are above you	Q
My place is more sweet	I
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The birds and the stars are above you	Q
They envy the flower in the grass	W
For I only I while I love you	Q
Can die as you pass	W
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Light clouds veil the stars growing denser constantly	W
The castle bell rings for vespers and rising the lady moves	W
to a corner of the parapet and kneels there	Y2
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L	C2
Ave Maria gratia plena Dominus	W
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Voice of the Page from the foot of the tower	D
My lord my lord they call for you at court	I
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The knight wakes It is now quite dark	P2
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There is a tourney toward your enemy	W
Has challenged you My lord make haste to come	Y
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The knight rises and gropes his way toward the stairs	W
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K	-
I will make haste Await me where you are	S2
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To himself	Z2
There was a lady on this tower with me	W
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He glances around hurriedly but does not see her in the darkness	W
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Page	E
My lord has far to ride before the dawn	A3
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K To himself	Z2
Why should I tarry	W
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To the page	E
Bring my horse and shield	I
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He descends As the noise of his footfall on the stairs dies away	-
the lady gropes toward the stairway then turns suddenly and going to	Q
the ledge where they have sat she throws herself over the parapet	I
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CURTAIN	X