t a period when knights were as common as days
(A pun that is somewhat rheumatic),
They pranced and cavorted on chestnuts and grays,
On milk-white Arabians, and beautiful bays,
(Equestrian bays, not aquatic).
And foremost of all in the deeds of a knight,
Chivalric, dashing, and fearless,
Down-putting the wrong and up-setting the right,
The paragon champion, the peerless,
(A pun that is somewhat rheumatic),
They pranced and cavorted on chestnuts and grays,
On milk-white Arabians, and beautiful bays,
(Equestrian bays, not aquatic).
And foremost of all in the deeds of a knight,
Chivalric, dashing, and fearless,
Down-putting the wrong and up-setting the right,
The paragon champion, the peerless,
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