Knight - Errant

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_62" id="Page_62">[Pg 62]</SPAN></span></p> <h2><SPAN name="KNIGHT-ERRANT" id="KNIGHT-ERRANT"></SPAN>KNIGHT-ERRANT</h2> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Onward he gallops through enchanted gloom.<br/></span> <span class="i1">The spectres of the forest, dark and dim,<br/></span> <span class="i1">And shadows of vast death environ him&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i0">Onward he spurs victorious over doom.<br/></span> <span class="i0">Before his eyes that love's far fires illume&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i1">Where courage sits, impregnable and grim&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i1">The form and features of <i>her</i> beauty swim,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Beckoning him on with looks that fears consume.<br/></span> <span class="i0">The thought of her distress, her lips to kiss,<br/></span> <span class="i1">Mails him with triple might; and so at last<br/></span> <span class="i2">To Lust's huge keep he comes; its giant wall,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Wild-towering, frowning from the precipice;<br/></span> <span class="i1">And through its gate, borne like a bugle blast,<br/></span> <span class="i2">O'er night and hell he thunders to his all.<br/></span></div> </div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />