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THE KNIGHT’S LADY WEEPS WITH SHAME.

 

She was a girl of noble birth

As wilful as the day

She saw a knight come riding in

And tumbled into love with him

Of knights she’d met no dearth

For love she’d trade the earth

 

She lit a candle sweet and white

To wish he’d come to her

The smoke went climbing like a prayer

Wreathing in the autumn air

Pale against the night

She set the candle light

 

She peeled an apple ripe and red

And tossed the peel behind

It fell into a crooked Ess

Initial of her knight confessed

She toasted him in mead

And grateful tears she shed

She clipped a lock of curling hair

While he did lie asleep

She sewed it in a silken pouch

And kissed it with her hungry mouth

And swore that she would wear

It round her neck so fair

 

She bought a potion from a dame

And dropped it in his wine

She chanted thrice a binding charm

The dame had sworn ‘twould do no harm

And when he called her name

She knew she had him tamed.

 

She wed him in the summer’s heat

And now she if his bride

While love and kisses hold him fast

She begs and prays his love will last

But every night she weeps

For shame at her deceit…

 

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