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Before the coming of the dark he dreamed	A
An old world faded story of a knight	B
Much like in need to him who was no knight	B
And of a road much like the road his soul	C
Groped over desperate to meet Her soul	C
Beside the bed Death waited And he dreamed	A
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His limbs were heavy from the fight	B
His mail was dark with dust and blood	D
On his good horse they bound him tight	B
And on his breast they bound the rood	E
To help him in the ride that night	B
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When he crashed through the wood's wet rim	F
About the dabbled reeds a breeze	G
Went moaning broken words and dim	F
The haggard shapes of twilight trees	G
Caught with their scrawny hands at him	F
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Between the doubtful aisles of day	H
Strange folk and lamentable stood	I
To maze and beckon him astray	H
But through the grey wrath of the wood	I
He held right on his bitter way	H
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When he came where the trees were thin	J
The moon sat waiting there to see	K
On her worn palm she laid her chin	J
And laughed awhile in sober glee	K
To think how strong this knight had been	J
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When he rode past the pallid lake	L
The withered yellow stems of flags	M
Stood breast high for his horse to break	L
Lewd as the palsied lips of hags	M
The petals in the moon did shake	L
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When he came by the mountain wall	N
The snow upon the heights looked down	O
And said The sight is pitiful	P
The nostrils of his steed are brown	O
With frozen blood and he will fall	N
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The iron passes of the hills	M
With question were importunate	I
And but the sharp tongued icy rills	M
Had grown for once compassionate	I
The spiteful shades had had their wills	M
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Just when the ache in breast and brain	Q
And the frost smiting at his face	M
Had sealed his spirit up with pain	Q
He came out in a better place	M
And morning lay across the plain	Q
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He saw the wet snails crawl and cling	R
On fern stalks where the rime had run	S
The careless birds went wing and wing	R
And in the low smile of the sun	S
Life seemed almost a pleasant thing	R
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Right on the panting charger swung	T
Through the bright depths of quiet grass	M
The knight's lips moved as if they sung	T
And through the peace there came to pass	M
The flattery of lute and tongue	T
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From the mid flowering of the mead	I
There swelled a sob of minstrelsy	M
Faint sackbuts and the dreamy reed	I
And plaintive lips of maids thereby	U
And songs blown out like thistle seed	I
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Forth from her maidens came the bride	I
And as his loosened rein fell slack	V
He muttered In their throats they lied	I
Who said that I should ne'er win back	V
To kiss her lips before I died	I

William Vaughn Moody

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