Dagonet
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You come to me for guidance? That’s a queer Anomaly, to ask an aged man What course in Life he recommends, what plan Of conduct,—ask the King, or Bedivere.... The King is dead? Oh, I recall,—last year It was; and Bedivere, last of the clan To follow, like a tired veteran Obeyed the hand that beckoned from the mere. Yes, I remember now: in Camelot When Life was wrapped about us like a flame How we enjoyed the zeal of Arthur’s rule. But that was long ago. And there is not A thing to say, because it was with shame I saw the King seek counsel of his fool. HERBERT W. HARTMAN, JR.