The Wild Knight and other Poems: the Two Women

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Lo! very fair is she who knows the ways / Of joy: in pleasure's mocking wisdom old, / The eyes that might be cold to flattery, kind; / The hair that might be grey with knowledge, gold.

But thou art more than these things, O my queen, / For thou art clad in ancient wars and tears. / And looking forth, framed in the crown of thorns, / I saw the youngest face in all the spheres.

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