Hoofs of Pegasus

<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</SPAN></span></p> <h2>FREE</h2> <div class="poetry-container"><div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0"><span class="bigfont">I</span> am a beggar maiden,</span> <span class="i0">I sleep beneath a thorn,</span> <span class="i0">At night my tree is thick with stars,</span> <span class="i0">I see the slender horn</span> <span class="i0">Of the young moon,</span> <span class="i0">I see the clean</span> <span class="i0">Essential light of morn.</span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">The King Cophetua and his Queen</span> <span class="i0">Ride by disdainfully;</span> <span class="i0">He glitters like a dragonfly,</span> <span class="i0">A scornful mouth has she—</span> <span class="i0">A curled red leaf—</span> <span class="i0">Yet she was once</span> <span class="i0">A beggar maid like me.</span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">The spearmen ride before them.</span> <span class="i0">My path no mortal knows;</span> <span class="i0">A ruby smoulders on her brow,</span> <span class="i0">My thicket yields a rose.</span> <span class="i0">Dance, dusty feet!</span> <span class="i0">I’m glad I’m not</span> <span class="i0">The maid Cophetua chose.</span></div> </div></div> <hr class="chap" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />