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Alone And Palely Loitering

SombrexRomantique

Published: Feb 27, 2010

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"
I met a lady in the meads
Full beautiful --- a faery's child;
Her hair was long, her foot was light,
And her eyes were wild.
I made a garland for her head,
And bracelets too, and fragrant zone;
She look'd at me as she did love,
And made sweet moan.
I set her on my pacing steed,
And nothing else saw all day long;
For sideways would she lean, and sing
A faery's song.
She found me roots of relish sweet,
And honey wild, and manna dew;
And sure in language strange she said,
'I love thee true.'
She took me to her elfin grot,
And there she wept and sighed full sore,
And there I shut her wild wild eyes
With kisses four.
And there she lulled me asleep,
And there I dream'd --- ah! woe betide! ---
The latest dream I ever dreamt
On the cold hill side.
I saw pale kings, and princes too,
Pale warriors, death-pale were they all;
They cried --- 'La Belle Dame sans Merci
Hath thee in thrall!'
I saw their starved lips in the gloam
With horrid warning gaped wide,
And I awoke, and found me here
On the cold hill side.
And this is why I sojourn here,
Alone and palely loitering;
Though the sedge is wither'd from the lake,
And no birds sing.
"
Monument;The Crüxshadows.
[[the poem they used in their lyrics is called La Belle Dame sans Merci & it's by John Keats.]]

I took this photo at a art museum yesterday. I wish the quality was better but this was the best I could do without flash (they don't allow flash photography at the museum).

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Photo (c) Me.
Lyrics (c) The Crüxshadows.}

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Lanthir44

Feb 27, 2010

Cool photo!
Although, the poem is actually "La Belle Dame sans Merci," by John Keats. Nice to know that the Cruxshadows have made a song of it though.