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Do I idly dream, as the village maid, / Who thinks, as she spins, of a princekin gay / On a prancing steed, who shall come her way / To woo her and win her and bear her away / Thro' the vasty depths of the forest shade / To a palace set in a sylvan glade,-- / To love her for aye and a day?
Is it like that he with his princely pride-- / The son of a proud old race, / Shall stoop with Cophetua's kingly grace / To lift me up to the vacant place, / To reign like a queen at his side? / Can the world afford him no worthier bride-- / No bride with a queenlier grace?