<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=553811" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Gawain</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Helluva day the day I fought<br>the lion to the death<br>when the women found me<br>prone across its flanks<br>and couldn't work out<br>whose blood was whose</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“Pardon me that you see me<br>in this disgraceful condition<br>I hope you won't mention it<br>to anybody,” I said<br>They took me upstairs<br>with my 500 wounds</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(where the enchanted women were 500,<br>though that was coincidence<br>rather than symbolism)<br>I looked from one woman <br>to the other<br>and my heart was simply aching</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I had had courage<br>I had had great one-pointedness<br>when I sliced at the lion<br>as he lashed. “You feel pretty fancy,”<br>the women said, “with that lion paw<br>stuck in your shield,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">don't you? But you do much harm<br>through courage.”<br>I conceded the point<br>It was that kind of century<br>It was a long day<br>Still the damned Green Knight to go</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What a saga<br>I knew how to pack it in tight<br>I looked from woman to woman<br>and my heart was simply aching<br>Three red drops in the snow<br>that's life</div><div style="margin:10px 0">or a castle to curl up in<br>hallways wide enough for horses<br>a bed of straw to dream in<br>the hoar frost is evaporated<br>an end to all this staggering<br>I was not entirely good but I</div><div style="margin:10px 0">became entire</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Luke+Davies">Luke Davies</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=553811" data-title="Gawain de Luke Davies" data-description="Helluva day the day I fought the lion to the death when the women found me prone across its flanks and couldn't work out whose blood was whose “Pardon me that you see me in this disgraceful condition I hope you won't mention it to anybody,” I..."></div> </div> </div>

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