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- KING AND NO KING
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- WOULD it were anything but merely voice!'
- The No King cried who after that was King,
- Because he had not heard of anything
- That balanced with a word is more than noise;
- Yet Old Romance being kind, let him prevail
- Somewhere or somehow that I have forgot,
- Though he'd but cannon -- Whereas we that had
- thought
- To have lit upon as clean and sweet a tale
- Have been defeated by that pledge you gave
- In momentary anger long ago;
- And I that have not your faith, how shall I know
- That in the blinding light beyond the grave
- We'll find so good a thing as that we have lost?
- The hourly kindness, the day's common speech.
- The habitual content of each with each
- Men neither soul nor body has been crossed.
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