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WOULD I KNEW!
Plays a child in a garden fair
Where the demigods are walking;
Playing unsuspected there
As a bird within the air,
Listens to their wondrous talking:
“Would I knew—would I knew
What it is they say and do!”
Where the demigods are walking;
Playing unsuspected there
As a bird within the air,
Listens to their wondrous talking:
“Would I knew—would I knew
What it is they say and do!”
Stands a youth at city-gate,
Sees the knights go forth together,
Parleying superb, elate,
Pair by pair in princely state,
Lance and shield and haughty feather:
“Would I knew—would I knew
What it is they say and do!”
Sees the knights go forth together,
Parleying superb, elate,
Pair by pair in princely state,
Lance and shield and haughty feather:
“Would I knew—would I knew
What it is they say and do!”
Bends a man with trembling knees
By a gulf of cloudy border;
Deaf, he hears no voice from these
Wingèd shades he dimly sees
Passing by in solemn order:
“Would I knew—O would I knew
What it is they say and do!”
By a gulf of cloudy border;
Deaf, he hears no voice from these
Wingèd shades he dimly sees
Passing by in solemn order:
“Would I knew—O would I knew
What it is they say and do!”
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