Guinevere at Her Fireside

 A nobler king had never breath-
I say it now, and said it then.

Who weds with such is wed till death
And wedded stays in Heaven.
 Amen.


(And oh, the shirts of linen-lawn,
And all the armor, tagged and tied,
And church on Sundays, dusk and dawn.

And bed a thing to kneel beside!)

The bravest one stood tall above
The rest, and watched me as a light.

I heard and heard them talk of love;
I'd naught to do but think, at night.


The bravest man has littlest brains;
That chalky fool from Astolat
With all her dying and her pains!-
Thank God, I helped him over that.


I found him not unfair to see-
I like a man with peppered hair!
And thus it came about.
 Ah, me,
Tristram was busied otherwhere.
.
.
.


A nobler king had never breath-
I say it now, and said it then.

Who weds with such is wed till death
And wedded stays in Heaven.
 Amen.

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