24 THE PRINCESS
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A Princz I was, blue-eyed, and fair in face,Of temper amorous, as the first of May,With lengths of yellow ringlet, like a girl,For on my cradle shone the Northern star. There lived an ancient legend in our house. 5Some sorcerer, whom a far-off grandsire burntBecause he cast no shadow, had foretold, Dying, that none of all our blood should know The shadow from the substance, and that one Should come to fight with shadows and to fall. 10For so, my mother said, the story ran. And, truly, waking dreams were, more or less,
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