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Title: Two Red Roses Across The Moon
Author: William Morris [
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There was a lady lived in a hall,
Large of her eyes, and slim and tall;
And ever she sung from noon to noon,
_Two red roses across the moon._
There was a knight came riding by
In early spring, when the roads were dry;
And he heard that lady sing at the noon,
_Two red roses across the moon._
Yet none the more he stopp'd at all,
But he rode a-gallop past the hall;
And left that lady singing at noon,
_Two red roses across the moon._
Because, forsooth, the battle was set,
And the scarlet and blue had got to be met,
He rode on the spur till the next warm noon:
_Two red roses across the moon._
But the battle was scatter'd from hill to hill,
From the windmill to the watermill;
And he said to himself, as it near'd the noon,
_Two red roses across the moon._
You scarce could see for the scarlet and blue,
A golden helm or a golden shoe:
So he cried, as the fight grew thick at the noon,
_Two red roses across the moon!_
Verily then the gold bore through
The huddled spears of the scarlet and blue;
And they cried, as they cut them down at the noon,
_Two red roses across the moon!_
I trow he stopp'd when he rode again
By the hall, though draggled sore with the rain;
And his lips were pinch'd to kiss at the noon
_Two red roses across the moon._
Under the may she stoop'd to the crown,
All was gold, there was nothing of brown;
And the horns blew up in the hall at noon,
_Two red roses across the moon._
[The end]
William Morris's poem: Two Red Roses Across The Moon
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