<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=368512" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Coeur De Lion</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">RICHARD the Lion-hearted, crowned serene <br>With the true royalty of perfect man; <br>Seated in stone above the praise or ban <br>Of these mixed crowds who come gaping lean <br>As if to see what the word 'king' might mean <br>In those old times. Behold! what need that rim <br>Of crown 'gainst this blue sky, to signal him <br>A monarch, of the monarchs that have been, <br>And, perhaps, are not?--Read his destinies <br>In the full brow o'er-arching kingly eyes, <br>In the strong hands, grasping both rein and sword, <br>In the close mouth, so sternly beautiful:-- <br>Surely, a man who his own spirit can rule; <br>Lord of himself, therefore his brethren's lord. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">II.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'O Richard, O mon roi.' So minstrels sighed. <br>The many-centuried voice dies fast away <br>Amidst the turmoil of our modern day. <br>How know we but these green-wreathed legends hide <br>An ugly truth that never could abide <br>In this our living world's far purer air?-- <br>Nevertheless, O statue, rest thou there, <br>Our Richard, of all chivalry the pride; <br>Or if not the true Richard, still a type <br>Of the old regal glory, fallen, o'er-ripe, <br>And giving place to better blossoming: <br>Stand--imaging the grand heroic days; <br>And let our little children come and gaze, <br>Whispering with innocent awe--'This was a King.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Dinah+Maria+Mulock+Craik">Dinah Maria Mulock Craik</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=368512" data-title="Coeur De Lion de Dinah Maria Mulock Craik" data-description="I. RICHARD the Lion-hearted, crowned serene With the true royalty of perfect man; Seated in stone above the praise or ban Of these mixed crowds who come gaping lean As if to see what the word 'king' might mean In those old times. Behold! wha..."></div> </div> </div>

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