The Palmer’s Tale
Mary C. F.
Münster (née Monck)
Münster, Mary C. F.
M. (poet; Once a Week)
M.
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University of Victoria Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry
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Poet attribution: possibly Mary C. F. Munster, who published a poem in Once a Week on 4 January 1862 with the pseudonym M.
(AC)
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Far in the purple time, e’er pain
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The Palmer’s Tale
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Far in the purple time, e’er pain
Had yet commenced her ancient reign—
That time which never comes again—
I met a Palmer on the way,
“ Oh, wretched youth, in evil day
I find thee, ” cried that pilgrim grey.
“ Thy love is dead : upon her lie
The snowy cerements, round her cry
The weeping crowd ; I saw her die.
“ A thousand knights without compare,
A thousand maidens call her fair,
A thousand lilies deck her hair.
“ Her golden hair with halo crown’d —”
I heard, and fell upon the ground ,
And saw no sight and heard no sound.
Then, where she lay, I came and cried,
“ Oh ! dearest dear, here let me bide,
Here sleep for ever by thy side.”
A voice came from the little hill
Of earth, “ O love, be constant still,
Such is the pleasure of my will.
“ Go, gather glory in the right :
A soul that dwells in love and light
Shall watch thee in the darkest night ;
“ And like a bird upon her nest
Shall brood above thee in thy rest,
And at the last shall make thee blest.”
M.