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First Line: We hold augustus actual and conceive
Last Line: Still ride king arthur's knights to seek the grail.
Subject(s): Middle Age


We hold Augustus actual and conceive
Launcelot as legend, Mary, Scotland's queen,
As woman more than Helen who has been
Clothed with perpetual beauty. Kings must leave
Their thrones at last. Lovers nor bards achieve
The masterdom of dust. No more is seen
Sappho in Lesbos, Shakespeare in a green
Sweet lane with Anne upon a summer's eve.

It is Ophelia who escapes the tomb:
It is Achates. Never on the frail
Tall towers of Kubla Khan shall fall the doom
That fell on Ur. Still slopes Ulysses' sail
Toward Circe's isle: with helmet and with plume
Still ride King Arthur's knights to seek the Grail.





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