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SIR PALAMEDES, THE SARACEN KNIGHT<br />

Touched the extreme, the giant goal!<br />

Yea! all things in that hour transcended,<br />

All power in his sublime control,<br />

All felt, all thought, all comprehended—<br />

“How is it, then, the quest” (he saith)<br />

“Is not—at last!—achieved and ended?<br />

Why taste I not the Bounteous Breath,<br />

Receive the Goodly Gift of Grace?<br />

Now, kind king-eagle (by God's death!),<br />

Restore me to mine ancient place!<br />

I am advantaged nothing then!”<br />

Then swooped he from the Byss of Space,<br />

And set the knight amid the fen.<br />

“God!” quoth Sir Palamede, “that I<br />

Who have won nine should fail at ten!<br />

I set my all upon the die:<br />

There is no further trick to try.<br />

Call thrice accursèd above men<br />

Sir Palamede the Saracen!”<br />

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