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O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,
Alone and palely loitering?
The sedge has withered from the lake,
And no birds sing. |
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O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms!
So haggard and so woebegone?
The squirrel's granary is full,
And the harvest's done. |
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I see a lily on thy brow
With anguish moist and fever dew,
And on thy cheek a fading rose
Fast withereth too. |
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"I met a lady in the meads,
Full beautiful - a faery's child,
Her haird was long, her foot was light,
And her eyes were wild. |
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I made a garland for her head,
And bracelets too, and fragrant zone;
She looked at me as she did love,
And made sweet moan. |
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I set her on my pacing steed,
And nothing else saw all day long,
For sidelong would she bend, and sing
A faery's song. |
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She found me roots of relish sweet,
And honey wild, and manna dew,
And sure in language strange she said
'I love thee true.' |
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She took me to her elfin grot,
And there she wept, and sighed full sore,
And there I shut her wild wild eyes
With kisses four. |
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And there she lulled me asleep,
And there I dreamed - Ah! woe betide!
The latest dream I ever dreamed
On the cold hill's side. |
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I saw pale kings and princes too,
Pale warriors, death-pale were they all;
They cried - 'La Belle Dame sans Merci
Hath thee in thral!' |
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I saw their starved lips in the gloam,
With horrid warning gaped wide,
And I awoke and found me here,
On the cold hill's side. |
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And this is why I sojourn here,
Alone and palely loitering,
Though the sedge has withered from the lake,
And no birds sing." |
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