![La Belle Dame Sans Merci - Loreena McKennitt](https://cdn.muztext.com/i/3284756396233925347.jpg)
Date of issue: 10.05.2018
Record label: Quinlan Road
Song language: English
La Belle Dame Sans Merci |
Oh what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, |
Alone and palely loitering? |
The sedge has withered from the lake, |
And no birds sing. |
II Oh what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, |
So haggard and so woe-begone? |
The squirrel’s granary is full, |
And the harvest’s done. |
III |
I see a lily on thy brow, |
With anguish moist and fever-dew, |
And on thy cheeks a fading rose |
Fast withereth too. |
IV 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 looked at me as she did love, |
And made sweet moan. |
VI I set her on my pacing steed, |
And nothing else saw all day long, |
For sidelong would she bend, and sing |
A faery’s song. |
VII |
She found me roots of relish sweet, |
And honey wild, and manna-dew, |
And sure in language strange she said — |
'I love thee true'. |
VIII |
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. |
IX And there she lulled me asleep |
And there I dreamed — 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!' |
XI I saw their starved lips in the gloam, |
With horrid warning gaped wide, |
And I awoke and found me here, |
On the cold hill’s side. |
XII |
And this is why I sojourn here |
Alone and palely loitering, |
Though the sedge is withered from the lake, |
And no birds sing. |
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