Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II.
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Chapter 16 No.16

Served within his sumptuous tent,

Looks the king in quiet wise,

Till this fair queen yield the prize

To the bravest; but when day

Falleth to the west away,

Unto her i' the silent hour,

While she sits in her rose-bower.

Come, 'O love, full oft,' quoth she,

'I at dawn have prayèd thee

Thou would'st tell o' the weird to me,

            
            

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