<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=355151" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Young Knight: A Parable</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A gay young knight in Burley stood,<br>Beside him pawed his steed so good,<br>His hands he wrung as he were wood<br>With waiting for his love O!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Oh, will she come, or will she stay,<br>Or will she waste the weary day<br>With fools who wish her far away,<br>And hate her for her love O?'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But by there came a mighty boar,<br>His jowl and tushes red with gore,<br>And on his curled snout he bore<br>A bracelet rich and rare O!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The knight he shrieked, he ran, he flew,<br>He searched the wild wood through and through,<br>But found nought save a mantle blue,<br>Low rolled within the brake O!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He twined the wild briar, red and white,<br>Upon his head the garland dight,<br>The green leaves withered black as night,<br>And burnt into his brain O!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A fire blazed up within his breast,<br>He mounted on an aimless quest,<br>He laid his virgin lance in rest,<br>And through the forest drove O!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">By Rhinefield and by Osmondsleigh,<br>Through leat and furze brake fast drove he,<br>Until he saw the homeless sea,<br>That called with all its waves O!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He laughed aloud to hear the roar,<br>And rushed his horse adown the shore,<br>The deep surge rolled him o'er and o'er,<br>And swept him down the tide O!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>New Forest, July 12, 1847.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charles+Kingsley">Charles Kingsley</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=355151" data-title="The Young Knight: A Parable de Charles Kingsley" data-description="A gay young knight in Burley stood, Beside him pawed his steed so good, His hands he wrung as he were wood With waiting for his love O! 'Oh, will she come, or will she stay, Or will she waste the weary day With fools who wish her far away, And ha..."></div> </div> </div>

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