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ARTHURIAN SONGS: 4. GUENEVERE, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: God rest the lady guenevere
Last Line: And for her soul pray we.
Subject(s): Beauty; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Love Affairs; Prayer; Dead, The


GOD rest the Lady Guenevere,
For much hath He required.
God rest the Lady Guenevere,
For surely she is tired.

If, in the hidden rosery
It was so white and red,
Was it not grey in Aymesbury
Till the bells rang her dead?

God rest her eyes, whereon Love wrote
His golden Masque, until
The vision of the Doomsday smote
And smouldered longer still.

God rest her weary golden head,
For it was fair to see!
The queen of lovers, she is dead,
And for her soul pray we.





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