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Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems

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<hr style="width: 65%;" />[Pg 199] <h2>THE TUNE OF SEVEN TOWERS</h2> <div class="cpoem25"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> NO one goes there now: For what is left to fetch away From the desolate battlements all arow, And the lead roof heavy and grey? Therefore, said fair Yoland of the flowers, This is the tune of Seven Towers. </div> <div class="stanza"> No one walks there now; Except in the white moonlight The white ghosts walk in a row; If one could see it, an awful sight, Listen! said fair Yoland of the flowers, This is the tune of Seven Towers. </div> <div class="stanza"> But none can see them now, Though they sit by the side of the moat, [Pg 200] Feet half in the water, there in a row, Long hair in the wind afloat. Therefore, said fair Yoland of the flowers, This is the tune of Seven Towers. </div> <div class="stanza"> If any will go to it now, He must go to it all alone, Its gates will not open to any row Of glittering spears: will you go alone? Listen! said fair Yoland of the flowers, This is the tune of Seven Towers. </div> <div class="stanza"> By my love go there now, To fetch me my coif away, My coif and my kirtle, with pearls arow, Oliver, go to-day! Therefore, said fair Yoland of the flowers, This is the tune of Seven Towers. </div> <div class="stanza"> I am unhappy now, I cannot tell you why; If you go, the priests and I in a row Will pray that you may not die. Listen! said fair Yoland of the flowers, This is the tune of Seven Towers. [Pg 201]</div> <div class="stanza"> If you will go for me now, I will kiss your mouth at last; [She sayeth inwardly.] (The graves stand grey in a row.) Oliver, hold me fast! Therefore, said fair Yoland of the flowers, This is the tune of Seven Towers. </div> </div></div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div>

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