Ban and Arriere Ban: A Rally of Fugitive Rhymes
Marsac at adventure rides, Felon men meet felon scathe, Micah Clarke is taking sides For King Monmouth and the Faith; For a Cause or for a lass Men are willing to be slain, And the dungeons of the Bass Hold a prisoner again.

King Romance with wand of gold Sways the realms he ruled of yore. Hills Dalgetty roamed of old, Valleys of enchanted Kôr: p. 29Waves his sceptre o’er the isles, Claims the pirates’ treasuries, Through innumerable miles Of the siren-haunted seas!

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Elfin folk of coast and cave, Laud him in the woven dance, All the tribes of wold and wave Bow the knee to King Romance! Wand’ring voices Chaucer knew On the mountain and the main, Cry the haunted forest through, King Romance has come again!

p. 30CENTRAL AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES

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IN SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM

IN SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM

‘Youth and crabbed age Cannot live together;’   So they say.

Youth

On this little page See you when and whether That they may.

Age was very old—  Stones from Chichimec Hardly wrung;

Youth had hair of gold Knotted on her neck—   Fair and young!

Age was carved with odd Slaves, and priests that slew them—   God and Beast;

p. 31Man and Beast and God—  There she sat and drew them, King and Priest!

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There she sat and drew Many a monstrous head And antique;

Horrors from Peru, Huacas doubly dead, Dead cacique!


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