The Wisdom Of The King
ang like a bird t ten
ter t they Bang
toget rocking
th long wrinkled fingers; and
tender and caressing,
nohe
great heir song:
Out of sig of mind:
Long have man and woman-kind
of mood,
taken away our wen food,
taken aar stone;
hunder alone,
And red s urn to grey,
Are true till time gutter away.
, the crone
hing now
remains but t a drop of our blood be
mixed into ched
of a spindle,
wo
a drop of blood, grey as the
mist, fall upon the child; and
passed out into the
ot in silence one by one;
and all t opened
o dance,
for too ignorant, and ther
too full of gaiety to knohe
beings over a cradle.
he nurse
came to o
t
in t of t the
Sher for good or evil she knew
not, over t night;
and ts and men of law,
and s men, and his cook, and his
c o t and
gat the cradle, and were as
noisy as magpies, and t up and
looked at them.
the king
died fig the Bag;
and ts and the men of law ruled in
t looked to see
er himself before
long, for no one had seen so wise a
cales of ions
about the
making of t her and
the
poor. I~vcryt
for a miracle t began to trouble all
men; and all women, walked
of it ceasing. the
grey o