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Sara Teasdale - The Princess In The Tower
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The Princess sings:

I am the princess up in the tower 
And I dream the whole day thro` 
Of a knight who shall come with a silver spear 
And a waving plume of blue.

I am the princess up in the tower, 
And I dream my dreams by day, 
But sometimes I wake, and my eyes are wet, 
When the dusk is deep and gray.

For the peasant lovers go by beneath, 
I hear them laugh and kiss, 
And I forget my day-dream knight, 
And long for a love like this.

II

The Minstrel sings:

I lie beside the princess` tower, 
So close she cannot see my face, 
And watch her dreaming all day long, 
And bending with a lily`s grace.

Her cheeks are paler than the moon 
That sails along a sunny sky, 
And yet her silent mouth is red 
Where tender words and kisses lie.

I am a minstrel with a harp, 
For love of her my songs are sweet, 
And yet I dare not lift the voice 
That lies so far beneath her feet.

III

The Knight sings:

O princess cease your dreams awhile 
And look adown your tower`s gray side — 
The princess gazes far away, 
Nor hears nor heeds the words I cried.

Perchance my heart was overbold, 
God made her dreams too pure to break, 
She sees the angels in the air 
Fly to and fro for Mary`s sake.

Farewell, I mount and go my way, 
— But oh her hair the sun sifts thro` — 
The tilts and tourneys wait my spear, 
I am the Knight of the Plume of Blue.
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