La Belle Dame Sans Merci (Introduction)

Another poem I set to music on this recording Was "La Belle Dame sans Merci" by John Keats Some of the imagery I saw Was of an old soldier on a decimated battle war in landscape Who in his final hours, hallucinates Seeing his beloved, and maybe wonders what it was all for In a place where no birds sing What can ail thee, knight-at-arms Alone and palely loitering? The sedge has withered from the lake And no birds sing