<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=510894" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Tarrant Moss</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I closed and drew for my love's sake<br>That now is false to me,<br>And I slew the Reiver of Tarrant Moss<br>And set Dumeny free.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They have gone down, they have gone down,<br>They are standing all arow -<br>Twenty knights in the peat-water,<br>That never struck a blow!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Their armour shall not dull nor rust,<br>Their flesh shall not decay,<br>For Tarrant Moss holds them in trust,<br>Until the Judgment Day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Their soul went from them in their youth,<br>Ah God, that mine had gone,<br>Whenas I leaned on my love's truth<br>And not on my sword alone!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Whenas I leaned on lad's belief<br>And not on my naked blade -<br>And I slew a thief, and an honest thief,<br>For the sake of a worthless maid.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They have laid the Reiver low in his place,<br>They have set me up on high,<br>But the twenty knights in the peat-water<br>Are luckier than I!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And ever they give me gold and praise<br>And ever I mourn my loss -<br>For I struck the blow for my false love's sake<br>And not for the Men of the Moss!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Rudyard+Kipling">Rudyard Kipling</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=510894" data-title="Tarrant Moss de Rudyard Kipling" data-description="I closed and drew for my love's sake That now is false to me, And I slew the Reiver of Tarrant Moss And set Dumeny free. They have gone down, they have gone down, They are standing all arow - Twenty knights in the peat-water, That never struck a ..."></div> </div> </div>

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