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the Equinox - The Hermetic Library

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SIR PALAMEDES, THE SARACEN KNIGHT<br />

A boy's laugh and a maiden's glance<br />

Are sweet as paramours!<br />

Stay! is <strong>the</strong>re naught some wanton wight<br />

May do to excite <strong>the</strong> glamoured knight?<br />

Yea! <strong>the</strong> song takes a sea-wild swell;<br />

<strong>The</strong> dance moves in a mystic web;<br />

Strange lights abound and terrible;<br />

<strong>The</strong> life that flowed is out at ebb.<br />

<strong>The</strong> lights are gone; <strong>the</strong> night is come;<br />

<strong>The</strong> lads and lasses sink, awaiting<br />

Some climax—oh, how tense and dumb<br />

<strong>The</strong> expectant hush intoxicating!<br />

Hush! <strong>the</strong> heart's beat! Across <strong>the</strong> moor<br />

Some dreadful god rides fast, be sure!<br />

<strong>The</strong> listening Palamede bites through<br />

His thin white lips—what hoofs are those?<br />

Are <strong>the</strong>y <strong>the</strong> Quest? How still and blue<br />

<strong>The</strong> sky is! Hush—God knows—God knows!<br />

<strong>The</strong>n on a sudden in <strong>the</strong> midst of <strong>the</strong>m<br />

Is a swart god, from hoof to girdle a goat,<br />

Upon his brow <strong>the</strong> twelve-star diadem<br />

And <strong>the</strong> King's Collar fastened on this throat.<br />

Thrill upon thrill courseth through Palamede.<br />

Life, live, pure life is bubbling in his blood.<br />

All youth comes back, all strength, all you indeed<br />

Flaming within that throbbing spirit-flood!<br />

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