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10 THE HIGH HISTORY OF GOOD But day by day the foes increase, Though day by day their thousands fall: Laughs the unshaken fortalice; The good knights laugh no more at all. Grimmer than heather hordes can scowl, The spectre hunger rages there; He passes like a midnight owl, Hooting his heraldry, despair. The knights and squires of Palamede Stalk pale and lean through court and hall; Though sharp and swift the archers speed Their yardlong arrows from the wall. Their numbers thin; their strength decays; Their fate is written plain to read: These are the dread deciduous days Of iron-souled Sir Palamede. He hears the horrid laugh that rings From camp to camp at night; he hears The cruel mouths of murderous kings Laugh out one menace that he fears. No sooner shall the heroes die Than, ere their flesh begin to rot, The heathen turns his raving eye To Caerlon and Camelot.
SIR PALAMEDES, THE SARACEN KNIGHT King Arthur in ignoble sloth Is sunk, and dalliance with his dame, Forgetful of his knightly oath, And careless of his kingly name. Befooled and cuckolded, the king Is yet the king, the king most high; And on his life the hinges swing That close the door of chivalry. ’Sblood! shall it sink, and rise no more, That blaze of time, when men were men? That is thy question, warrior Sir Palamede the Saracen! 11
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SIR PALAMEDES, THE SARACEN KNIGHT<br />
King Arthur in ignoble sloth<br />
Is sunk, and dalliance with his dame,<br />
Forgetful of his knightly oath,<br />
And careless of his kingly name.<br />
Befooled and cuckolded, <strong>the</strong> king<br />
Is yet <strong>the</strong> king, <strong>the</strong> king most high;<br />
And on his life <strong>the</strong> hinges swing<br />
That close <strong>the</strong> door of chivalry.<br />
’Sblood! shall it sink, and rise no more,<br />
That blaze of time, when men were men?<br />
That is thy question, warrior<br />
Sir Palamede <strong>the</strong> Saracen!<br />
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