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- Leodogran, the King of Cameliard,
- Had one fair daughter, and none other child;
- And she was the fairest of all flesh on earth,
- Guinevere, and in her his one delight.
- For many a petty king ere Arthur came
- Ruled in this isle, and ever waging war
- Each upon other, wasted all the land;
- And still from time to time the heathen host
- Swarmed overseas, and harried what was left.
- And so there grew great tracts of wilderness,
- Wherein the beast was ever more and more,
- But man was less and less, till Arthur came.
- For first Aurelius lived and fought and died,
- And after him King Uther fought and died,
- But either failed to make the kingdom one.
- And after these King Arthur for a space,
- And through the puissance of his Table Round,
- Drew all their petty princedoms under him.
- Their king and head, and made a realm, and reigned.
- And thus the land of Cameliard was waste,
- Thick with wet woods, and many a beast therein,
- And none or few to scare or chase the beast;
- So that wild dog, and wolf and boar and bear
- Came night and day, and rooted in the fields,
- And wallowed in the gardens of the King.
- And ever and anon the wolf would steal
- The children and devour, but now and then,
- Her own brood lost or dead, lent her fierce teat
- To human sucklings; and the children, housed
- In her foul den, there at their meat would growl,
- And mock their foster mother on four feet,
- Till, straightened, they grew up to wolf-like men,
- Worse than the wolves. And King Leodogran
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