Poems (Elliott)/Ending to "Gareth and Lynette"
Ending to "Gareth and Lynette"
Fair Lyonors, the lady of his quest,
Who lived in grim and gray old Perilous,
After Gareth the victories hard had won,
Amid her maids made mirth and revelry,
In honor of her brave and gallant knight,
Forgetting not the hero that he was,
And all the dangers he had saved her from.
So thus the spell worked on her woman's heart,
The spell that often has its greatest charm—
The magic of the unknown and the strange,
The unaccustomed and mysterious.
Lynette had been so arrogant and vain
That this sweet attitude of Lyonors
More than her beauty which was also great
Thus won his great devotion and his love.
And when he knew his love reciprocate
These two were wed, these two thus joined by Fate.
Who lived in grim and gray old Perilous,
After Gareth the victories hard had won,
Amid her maids made mirth and revelry,
In honor of her brave and gallant knight,
Forgetting not the hero that he was,
And all the dangers he had saved her from.
So thus the spell worked on her woman's heart,
The spell that often has its greatest charm—
The magic of the unknown and the strange,
The unaccustomed and mysterious.
Lynette had been so arrogant and vain
That this sweet attitude of Lyonors
More than her beauty which was also great
Thus won his great devotion and his love.
And when he knew his love reciprocate
These two were wed, these two thus joined by Fate.