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CLOTH OF GOLD RECONSTRUCTION

You ask us if by rule or no
Our many-colored songs are wrought?
Upon the cunning loom of thought
We weave our fancies, so and so.
The busy shuttle comes and goes
Across the rhymes, and deftly weaves
A tissue out of autumn leaves
With here a thistle, there a rose.
With art and patience thus is made
The poet's perfect Cloth of Gold
When woven so, nor moth nor mould
Nor time can make its colors fade.
CLOTH OF GOLD---PRELUDE
Thomas Bailey Aldrich

There she was dressed in cloth of gold, arrayed
With rubies, turquoise, lapis-lazuli,
And given every gift her state deserved;
She was herself a ruby, pure, uncut.
THE LEGEND OF SEYAVSH
Abolqasem Ferdowsi
Persian Classic Series
c 920-c1040

Six columns, three on either side,
Pure silver, underpropt a rich
Throne of the massive ore, from which
Down-droop'd, in many a floating fold,
Engarlanded and diaper'd
With inwrought flowers, a cloth of gold.
RECOLLECTION OF THE ARABIAN NIGHTS
Alfred Lord Tennyson

The most attractive feature of the procession
in the eyes of the beholders was the Lady Anne,
who, mounted on a snow-white palfrey richly trapped,
rode on the right of the king.
She was dressed in a rich gown of raised cloth of gold;
and had a coronet of black velvet,
decorated with orient pearls.
WINDSOR CASTLE
William Harrison Ainsworth
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Describing Anne Boleyn's attire
during King Henry's
Chapter of the Garter
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In the alcove whose curtains are cloth-of-gold,
and whose pillars are fluted sapphire,
reclines the emperor Chan.
ENNUI
Clark Ashton Smith
Eldritch Dark

A Golden Thread
Shimmered on the shaft of heaven,
Radiant in her washen raiment,
In her white and shining raiment,
Busy weaving cloth of gold,
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Where are the braveries, fresh or frayed?
The plumes, the armours--friend or foe?
The cloth of gold, the rare brocade,
The mantles glittering to and fro?
BALLADE OF DEAD ACTORS
William Ernest Henley
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