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PREVISION by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR

First Line: WHILE ALL THE DANCING DAYS THAT PASS
Last Line: SO FARE THE SONS OF LOVE?
Subject(s): KNIGHTS & KNIGHTHOOD; LOVE;

WHILE all the dancing days that pass
Take oath we cannot die,
Alas! Alas! green grows the grass
Whereunder you must lie.

A golden Knight, sans fear or peer,
Lord Love great challenge saith:—
The hooded year is moving near
That strikes my heart with death.

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust!
O bitterness thereof!
The sons of Lust, they moulder. Must
So fare the sons of Love?



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