“now since mine even is come at last,—
For I have been the sport of steel,
And hot life ebbeth from me fast,
And I in saddle roll and reel,—
Come bind me, bind me on my steed!
Of fingering leech I have no need!”
The chaplain clasped his mailëd knee...
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“not ye who have stoned, not ye who have smitten us,” cry |
The garden within was shaded, And the street without was narrow, |
He loved her, having felt his love begin |
So, the powder ’s low, and the larder ’s clean, Let us once more fill, ere the final chill, |
The puritan Spring Beauties stood freshly clad for church; |
White england shouldering from the sea, God guard thee long from scath and grief! |
To the wall of the old green garden He looked at the gray geraniums, |