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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=539832" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Princes' Quest - Part the Tenth</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=539832" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">That night within the City of Youth there stood<br>Musicians playing to the multitude<br>On many a gold and silver instrument<br>Whose differing souls yet chimed in glad consent.<br>And sooth-tongued singers, throated like the bird<br>All darkness holds its breath to hear, were heard<br>Chanting aloud before the comely folk,<br>Chanting aloud till none-for listening spoke,<br>Chanting aloud that all the city rang;<br>And whoso will may hear the song they sang:-</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=539832" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">I</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=539832" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">O happy hearts, O youths and damsels, pray<br>What new and wondrous thing hath chanced to-day,<br>O happy hearts, what wondrous thing and new?<br>Set the gold sun with kinglier-mightful glance,<br>Rose the maid-moon with queenlier countenance,<br>Came the stars forth a merrier madder crew,<br>Than ever sun or maiden-moon before,<br>Or jostling stars that shook the darkness' floor<br>With night-wide tremor 'neath their dizzy dance?</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=539832" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Strong is the Sun, but strong alway was he;<br>The Moon is fair, but ever fair showed she;<br>The Stars are many, and who hath known them few?<br>As now they be, so heretofore were they:<br>What is the wondrous thing hath chanced to-day,<br>O happy hearts, the wondrous thing and new,<br>Whereof ye are glad together even more<br>Than of the sunlight or the moonlight or<br>The light o' the stars that strow the milky-way?</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=539832" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">For all your many maidens have the head<br>In goodly festal wise engarlanded,<br>With flowers at noon the banquet of the bees,<br>And leaves that in some grove at midday grew:<br>And ever since the falling of the dew<br>Your streets are full of pomps and pageantries,<br>Laughter and song, feasting and dancing:-nay,<br>Surely some wondrous thing hath chanced to-day;<br>O happy hearts, what wondrous thing and new?</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=539832" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">II</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=539832" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">No, no, ye need not answer any word!<br>Heard have we all-who lives and hath not heard?-<br>What thing the sovran Fates have done to-day;<br>Who turn the tides of life which way they please,<br>And sit themselves aloft, aloof, at ease:<br>Dwellers in courts of marble silence they.<br>No need to ask what thing the Fates have done<br>Between the sunrise and the set of sun,<br>Mute-moving in their twilight fastnesses!</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=539832" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Changeless, aloft, aloof, mute-moving, dim,<br>In ancient fastnesses of twilight-him<br>Have they not sent this day, the long-foretold,<br>The long-foretold and much-desired, of whom<br>'Twas whilom written in the rolls of doom<br>How in a dream he should this land behold,<br>And hither come from worldwide wandering,<br>Hither where all the folk should hail him king,<br>Our king foredestined from his mother's womb?</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=539832" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Long time he tarried, but the time is past,<br>And he hath come ye waited for, at last:<br>The long-foretold, the much-desired, hath come.<br>And ye command your minstrels noise abroad<br>With lyre and tongue your joyance and his laud,<br>And, sooth to say, the minstrels are not dumb.<br>And ever in the pauses of our chant,<br>So for exceeding perfect joy ye pant,<br>We hear the beating of your hearts applaud!</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=539832" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">III</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=539832" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">And she our Queen-ah, who shall tell what hours<br>She bode his coming in her palace-towers,<br>Unmated she in all the land alone?<br>'Twas yours, O youths and maids, to clasp and kiss;<br>Desiring and desired ye had your bliss:<br>The Queen she sat upon her loveless throne.<br>Sleeping she saw his face, but could not find<br>Its phantom's phantom when she waked, nor wind<br>About her finger one gold hair of his.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=539832" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Often when evening sobered all the air,<br>No doubt but she would sit and marvel where<br>He tarried, by the bounds of what strange sea;<br>And peradventure look at intervals<br>Forth of the windows of her palace walls,<br>And watch the gloaming darken fount and tree;<br>And think on twilight shores, with dreaming caves<br>Full of the groping of bewildered waves,<br>Full of the murmur of their hollow halls.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=539832" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">As flowers desire the kisses of the rain,<br>She his, and many a year desired in vain:<br>She waits no more who waited long enow.<br>Nor listeth he to wander any more<br>Who went as go the winds from sea to shore,<br>From shore to sea who went as the winds go.<br>The winds do seek a place of rest; the flowers<br>Look for the rain; but in a while the showers<br>Come, and the winds lie down, their wanderings o'er.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=William+Watson">William Watson</a></strong></div>