<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=419213" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Enigma of the Knight</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I dreamt that I was dreaming<br>And in my dream beheld<br>A knight in fading armour<br>His name from me withheld.<br>Relentlessly the tolling<br>Did saturate the air, <br>And filled the empty graveyard...<br>The one with no-one there.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His sword within his scabbard<br>Still sharp and virgin clean, <br>I wondered if to battle<br>This knight had ever been? <br>No blood upon the countenance<br>Beneath the iron hood; <br>No answer to my question, <br>The mystery still stood.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of toil and sad confusion<br>And hatred and disgrace<br>He told me, then I looked again<br>And thought I knew his face; <br>I felt I recognised the voice<br>That whispered soft as mute: <br>'A song will be our epitaph, <br>Sung sweetly on the lute.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The vision turned and made to leave, <br>I asked him not to go, <br>He drew a little closer saying: <br>'Do you wish to know? <br>The timer drawn of molten glass<br>Is running out of sand; <br>This dream within another<br>You will never understand.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His life was nearly finished<br>And so, I thought, my dream, <br>I turned away and over<br>To try my sleep redeem; <br>Then dreamt that I had woken<br>Still puzzled by the knight, <br>Then woke again to find that<br>I, like he, had lost the fight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Written April/May 1996)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Carter+Brown">John Carter Brown</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=419213" data-title="Enigma of the Knight de John Carter Brown" data-description="I dreamt that I was dreaming And in my dream beheld A knight in fading armour His name from me withheld. Relentlessly the tolling Did saturate the air, And filled the empty graveyard... The one with no-one there. His sword within his scabbard St..."></div> </div> </div>

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