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SIR PALAMEDES, THE SARACEN KNIGHT<br />

By simple faith, not heathen might,<br />

Catch him, and thus achieve the quest!”<br />

Then quoth that melancholy wight:<br />

“I will believe!” The hermit blessed<br />

His convert: on the horizon<br />

Appears the Beast. “To thee the rest!”<br />

He cries, to urge the good knight on.<br />

But no! Sir Palamedes grips<br />

The hermit by the woebegone<br />

Beard of him; then away he rips,<br />

Wood as a maniac, to the West,<br />

Where down the sun in splendour slips,<br />

And where the quarry of the quest<br />

Canters. They run like hippogriffs!<br />

Like men pursued, or swine possessed,<br />

Over the dizzy Cretan cliffs<br />

They smash. And lo! it comes to pass<br />

He sees in no dim hieroglyphs,<br />

In knowledge easy to amass,<br />

This hermit (while he drew his breath)<br />

Once dead is like a mangy ass.<br />

Bruised, broken, but not bound to death,<br />

He calls some passing fishermen<br />

To bear him. Presently he saith:<br />

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