The Wild Knight and other Poems: the Lamp Post

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Laugh your best, O blazoned forests, / Me ye shall not shift or shame / With your beauty: here among you / Man hath set his spear of flame.

Lamp to lamp we send the signal, / For our lord goes forth to war; / Since a voice, ere stars were builded, / Bade him colonise a star.

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