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I see her as though she were standing yet	A
In her tower at the end of the town	B
When the hot sun mounts and when dusk comes down	B
With her two hands laid on the parapet	A
The curve of her throat as she turns this way	C
The bend of her body I see it all	D
And the watching eyes that look day by day	C
O'er the flood that runs by the city wall	D
	-
The winds by the river would come and go	E
On the flame red gown she was wont to wear	F
And the scarlet lilies that crowned her hair	F
And the scarlet lilies that grew below	E
I used to lie like a wolf in his lair	F
With a burning heart and a soul in thrall	D
Gazing across in a fume of despair	F
O'er the flood that runs by the river wall	D
	-
I saw when he came with his tiger's eyes	G
That held you still in the grip of their glance	H
And the cat smooth air he had learned in France	H
The light on his sword from the evening skies	G
When the heron stood at the water's edge	I
And the sun went down in a crimson ball	D
I crouched in a thicket of rush and sedge	I
By the flood that runs by the river wall	D
	-
He knew where the stone lay loose in its place	J
And a foot might hold in the chink between	K
The carven niche where the arms had been	L
And the iron rings in the tower's face	J
For the scarlet lilies lay broken round	M
Snapped through at the place where his tread would fall	D
As he slipped at dawn to the yielding ground	M
Near the flood that runs by the river wall	D
	-
I gave the warning I ambushed the band	N
In the alder clump he was one to ten	O
Shall I fight for my soul as he fought then	O
Lord God in the grasp of the devil's hand	N
As the cock crew up in the morning chill	P
And the city waked to the watchman's call	D
There were four left lying to sleep their fill	P
At the flood that runs by the city wall	D
	-
Had I owned this world to its farthest part	Q
I had bartered all to have had his share	F
Yet he died that night in the city square	F
With a scarlet lily above his heart	Q
And she Where the torrent goes by the slope	R
There rose in the river a stifled call	D
And two white hands strove with a knotted rope	R
In the flood that runs by the river wall	D
	-
Christ I had thought I should die like a man	S
And that death grim death might himself be sweet	T
When the red sod rocked to the horses' feet	T
And the knights went down as they led the van	S
But the end that waits like a trap for me	U
Will come when I fight for my latest breath	V
With a white face drowned between God and me	U
In the flood that runs by the banks of death	V

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