stiff backing paper used to
support the bookmark in the post,
showing printed Stevens logo
[image of PEEPING TOM]
THEN SHE RODE FORTH,
CLOTHED ON WITH CHASTITY:
AND ONE LOW CHURL,
COMPACT OF THANKLESS EARTH,
THE FATAL BYWORD OF ALL YEARS TO COME
BORING A LITTLE AUGUR-HOLE IN FEAR,
PEEP'D -- BUT HIS EYES,
BEFORE THEY HAD THEIR WILL,
WERE SHRIVELL'D INTO DARKNESS
IN HIS HEAD,
AND DROPT BEFORE HIM.
[image of Lady Godiva statue
riding horseback through
the streets of Coventry.
Beneath is a scroll with words:-
THEN SHE RODE FORTH,
CLOTHED ON WITH CHASTITY,
LADY GODIVA
SO THE POWERS, WHO WAIT
ON NOBLE DEEDS,
CANCELL'D A SENSE MISUSED;
AND SHE THAT KNEW NOT, PASS'D;
AND ALL AT ONCE,
WITH TWELVE GREAT SHOCKS
OF SOUND
THE SHAMELESS NOON
WAS CLASH'D AND HAMMER'D
FROM A HUNDRED TOWERS,
ONE AFTER ONE,
BUT EVEN THEN SHE GAIN'D
HER BOWER; WHENCE REISSUING,
ROBED AND CROWN'D,
TO MEET HER LORD,
SHE TOOK THE TAX AWAY
AND BUILT HERSELF
AN EVERLASTING NAME
TENNYSON
