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38<br />

XIV<br />

NORTHWARD <strong>the</strong> good knight gallops fast,<br />

Resolved to seek his foe at home,<br />

When rose that Vision of <strong>the</strong> past,<br />

<strong>The</strong> royal battlements of Rome,<br />

A ruined city, and a dome.<br />

<strong>The</strong>re in <strong>the</strong> broken Forum sat<br />

A red-robed robber in a Hat.<br />

“Whi<strong>the</strong>r away, Sir Knight, so fey?”<br />

“Priest, for <strong>the</strong> dove on Ararat<br />

I could not, nor I will not, stay!”<br />

“I know thy quest. Seek on in vain<br />

A golden hart with silver horns!<br />

Life springeth out of divers pains.<br />

What crown <strong>the</strong> King of Kings adorns?<br />

A crown of gems? A crown of thorns!<br />

<strong>The</strong> Questing Beast is like a king<br />

In face, and hath a pigeon's wing<br />

And claw; its body is one fleece<br />

Of bloody white, a lamb's in spring.<br />

Enough. Sir Knight, I give <strong>the</strong>e peace.”

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