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Seven moons new moons had eastward set their horns	A
Averted from the sun seven moons old moons	B
Westward their sun averted horns had set	C
Since Angelo had brought his young bride home	D
Lucia to queen it in his Tuscan halls	E
And much the folk had marvelled on that day	F
Seeing the bride how young and fair she was	G
How all unlike the groom for she had known	H
Twenty and five soft summers woo the world	I
He twice as many winters take 't by storm	J
And in those half an hundred winters ay	F
And in the summer's blaze and blush of spring	K
And pomp of grave and grandiose autumntides	G
Full many a wind had beat upon his heart	L
Of grief and frustrate hope full many a wind	M
And rains full many but no rains could damp	N
The fuel that was stored within which lay	F
Unlighted waiting for the tinder touch	O
Until a chance spark fall'n from Lucia's eyes	G
Kindled the fuel and the fire was love	P
Not such as rises blown upon the wind	M
Goaded to flame by gusts of phantasy	G
But still and needing no replenishment	Q
Unquenchable that would not be put out	R
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Albeit the lady Lucia's bosom lacked	S
The ore had made her heart a richer mine	T
Than earth's auriferous heart unsunned from her	U
Love went not out in whom there was no love	P
Cold from the first her breast grew frore and bit	V
Her kind lord's bosom with its stinging frost	W
Because he loved the fields and forests made	X
Few banquetings for highborn winebibbers	G
Eschewed the city and led no sumptuous life	Y
She courtly sneered at his uncourtliness	G
Deeming his manners of a bygone mode	Z
And for that he was gentle overmuch	O
And overmuch forbearant she despised	A2
Mocked slighted taunted him and of her scorn	B2
Made a sharp shaft to wound his life at will	C2
She filled her cup with hate and bade him drink	D2
And he returned it brimming o'er with love	P
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And so seven moons had waxed and waned since these	G
Were wedded And it chanced one morn of Spring	K
Lucia bespake her spouse in even more	E2
Ungentle wise than was her wont and he	F2
For the first time reproved her not as one	G2
That having from another ta'en ill words	G
Will e'en cry quits and barter words as ill	C2
But liker as a father whom his child	H2
With insolent lips hath wounded chides the child	H2
Less than he knows it had been wise to do	I2
Saying within himself 'The time will come	J2
When thou wilt think on thy dead father how	K2
Thou might'st have spoken gentlier unto him	L2
One day when yet thy father was alive	M2
So shall thy heart rebuke thy heart enow '	-
Ev'n thus did Angelo reprove his wife	Y
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But though the words from his rough bearded lips	G
Were like sweet water from the mouth of some	J2
Rock fountain hewn with elemental hands	G
They fell as water cast i' the fire to be	F2
Consumed with hissing rage Her wrath let loose	G
Blew to and fro and hither and thither like	N2
A wind that seems to have forgotten whence	G
It came and whither it was bidden blow	O2
She cursed the kinsfolk who had willed that she	F2
Should wed with him and cursed herself that gave	P2
Ear to the utterance of their will and cursed	Q2
The day on which their will became her deed	R2
Saying and this he knew not until now	K2
'Fool I should ne'er have wedded thee at all	S2
No neither thee nor any like to thee	F2
Had not my father wellnigh forced me to 't '	-
And he that hearkened the Lord Angelo	O2
Spake not a word but bowed his head and went	T2
Forth of his castle to the forest nigh	U2
And roamed all day about the forest filled	V2
With grief and marvelling at her lack of love	P
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But that which sorelier bruised his breast than ev'n	W2
Lucia's exceeding lack of love for him	L2
Was this new knowledge that in taking her	U
To wife in the very act of taking her	U
To wife himself had crossed the secret will	C2
Of her whose will in all things it had been	X2
His soul's most perfect bliss to gratify	U2
Wherefore to make atonement in some sort	Y2
For this one wrong he deemed that he had done	G2
The woman this one crossing of her will	C2
He knelt him down under the brooding shade	X
Of a huge oak and vowed 'fore heaven a vow	K2
To wit that Lucia never afterward	Z2
Should in his hearing utter forth a wish	O
For aught of earthly but himself would see	F2
That wish fulfilled if such fulfilment were	U
An end that mortal man could compass Then	W2
Uprising he beheld the sinking sun	G2
A vast round eye gaze in upon the wood	A3
Through leafy lattice of its nether boughs	G
Whereat he turned him castlewards and owned	B3
A lighter heart than he had borne that day	F
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Homeward his face no sooner had he set	C
Than through the woods came riding unto him	L2
A stranger of a goodly personage	C3
Young and right richly habited who stayed	X
His horse and greeted Angelo and said	D3
'I pray you sir direct me how to find	M
An hostel if there be such hereabouts	G
For I have ridden far and lost my way	F
Among these woods and twilight is at hand '	-
Then he that heard replied to him that asked	E3
Saying 'The nearest inn is farther hence	G
Than mine own house make therefore mine own house	G
Your inn for this one night and unto such	O
Poor entertainment as my house affords	G
You are most welcome ' So the stranger thanked	F3
In courtly speeches the Lord Angelo	O2
Gladly accepting hospitalities	G
That were so gladly proffered and the two	I2
Fared on together host and guest that were	U
To be until they reached the castle where	G3
Angelo dwelt and where his fathers lived	H3
Before him lords of land in olden days	G
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And entering in the castle's later lord	I3
Led the young signor to the chamber where	G3
The lady Lucia sat who rose to give	J3
The stranger courteous welcome When she chose	G
Of looks and lips more gracious none than she	F2
But soon as she beheld the young man's face	G
A sudden pallor seized her own and back	K3
She started wellnigh swooning but regained	L3
Her wonted self as suddenly declared	M3
'Twas but a momentary sickness went	T2
Arrow like through her sharp but therewithal	O2
Brief as the breath's one ebb and flow and which	O
Passing had left her painless as before	E2
And truly from that moment she appeared	N3
More brightly beautiful if Angelo	O2
Erred not than she had looked for many a day	F
	-
So in brief while the stranger guest sat down	O3
With host and hostess to a table charged	P3
With delicate meats and fragrant fruits and wine	T
And when the meal was over and themselves	G
Were with themselves alone the serving men	W2
Having withdrawn a cheerful converse rose	G
Concerning divers matters old and new	I2
And Angelo that evening let his tongue	Q3
Range more at freedom than he used for though	O2
No man was less to prating given than he	F2
Yet when he liked his listener he could make	R3
His mouth discourse in such a wise that few	I2
Had failed to give delighted audience	G
For he had learning and besides the lore	E2
Won from his books a better wisdom owned	B3
A knowledge of the stuff whence books are made	X
The human mind and all it feeds upon	S3
And in his youth a wanderer he had roamed	T3
O'er many countries not as one who sees	G
With eyes alone and hearkens but with ears	G
Rather as who would slake the thirst of the soul	O2
By sucking wisdom from the breasts of the world	I
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Wherefore the hours flew lightly winged with words	G
Till Angelo from telling of his own	H
Young days and early fortunes good and ill	O2
Was with remembrance smitten as it chanced	I
Of some old grief 'twas grief to think upon	S3
And so he changed his theme o' the sudden donned	I
A shadowy mask of laboured pleasantry	F2
And said 'My wife sir hath a pretty gift	I
Of singing and of luting it may be	F2
If you should let your tongue turn mendicant	I
Not for itself but for its needy kin	X2
Your ears she might be got to give an alms	G
For those twin brethren ' Whereupon the guest	I
Unto his hostess turned and smiling said	I
'That were indeed a golden alms your voice	G
Could well afford and never know itself	U3
The poorer being a mint of suchlike coin '	-
And she made answer archly 'I have oft	I
Heard flatterers of a woman's singing say	F
Her voice was silvery to compare 't with gold	I
Is	G

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