SubTitle("caps", "Troubadour's Song") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When we went hunting in Fairyland,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "(O the chiming bells on her bridle-rein!)", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the hounds broke leash at the queen's command,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "(O the toss of her palfrey's mane!)", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Like shadows we fled through the weaving shade", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With quivering moonbeams thick inlaid,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the shrilling bugles around us played—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "I dreamed that I fought the Dane.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Clatter of faun-feet sudden and swift,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "(O the view-halloo in the dusky wood!)", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And satyrs crowding the mountain rift,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "(O the flare of her fierce wild mood!)", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Boulders and hollows alive, astir", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With a goat-thighed foe, all teeth and fur,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We husked that foe like a chestnut bur—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "I thought of the Holy Rood.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We trailed from our shallop a magic net,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "(O the spell of her voice with its crooning note!)", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "By the edge of the world, where the stars are set,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "(O the ripples that rocked our boat!)", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But into the mesh of the star-sown dream", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A mermaid swept on the lashing stream,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A drift of spume and an emerald gleam—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "I remembered my love's white throat.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When we held revel in Fairyland,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "(O the whirl of the dancers under the Hill!)", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The wind-harp sang to the queen's light hand,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "(O her eyes, so deep and still!)", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But I was a captive among them all,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the jeweled flagons were brimming with gall,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the arras of gold was a dungeon-wall,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L3", "", "I dreamed that they set me free!", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>