[00:00.00]O what can ail thee knight-at-arms
[00:02.59]Alone and palely loitering?
[00:05.51]The sedge has wither'd from the Lake
[00:08.45]And no birds sing!
[00:10.63]
[00:11.87]O what can ail thee knight-at-arms
[00:14.00]So haggard and so woe-begone?
[00:17.11]The squirrel's granary is full
[00:19.90]And the harvest's done.
[00:22.10]
[00:23.14]I see a lily on thy brow
[00:25.44]With anguish moist and fever dew
[00:28.77]And on thy cheeks a fading rose
[00:30.92]Fast withereth too—
[00:32.83]
[00:33.84]I met a Lady in the Meads
[00:36.88]Full beautiful, a faery's child
[00:40.54]Her hair was long, her foot was light
[00:44.32]And her eyes were wild—
[00:46.68]
[00:47.37]I made a Garland for her head,
[00:50.02]And bracelets too, and fragrant zone:
[00:52.96]She look'd at me as she did love
[00:55.73]And made sweet moan—
[00:58.14]
[00:59.37]I set her on my pacing steed
[01:01.87]And nothing else saw all day long
[01:04.60]For sidelong would she bend and sing
[01:07.17]A faery's song—
[01:09.07]
[01:10.32]She found me roots of relish sweet
[01:13.32]And honey wild and manna dew
[01:15.53]And sure in language strange she said
[01:18.89]"I love thee true"—
[01:21.31]
[01:22.43]She took me to her elfin grot
[01:25.16]And there she wept and sigh'd full sore
[01:28.69]And there I shut her wild wild eyes
[01:31.57]With kisses four.
[01:33.57]
[01:34.42]And there she lulled me asleep
[01:37.06]And there I dream'd—Ah Woe betide!
[01:40.65]The latest dream I ever dreamt
[01:43.45]On the cold hill's side.
[01:46.10]
[01:47.30]I saw pale kings and princes too
[01:50.49]Pale warriors, death-pale were they all;
[01:54.56]They cried "La belle dame sans merci
[01:57.96]Hath thee in thrall."
[02:00.30]
[02:01.33]I saw their starv'd lips in the gloam
[02:04.04]With horrid warning gaped wide
[02:07.17]And I awoke and found me here
[02:10.02]On the cold hill's side.
[02:12.77]
[02:13.90]And this is why I sojourn here
[02:16.53]Alone and palely loitering;
[02:19.85]Though the sedge is wither'd from the Lake,
[02:23.54]And no birds sing—