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The Lady of Shalott is confined to her castle where she
weaves scenes of people traveling to Camelot, the famed and wondrous city of King
Arthur.  She cannot look directly out the window of her castle because of a curse placed
on her, so she views the scenes through a mirror.  She weaves what she sees in the
mirror. The lines above are people  she sees in her mirror who are traveling to the city
and castle with towers, Camelot.  Sometimes it is a group of happy girls; sometimes a
priest who is walking slowing down the path; sometimes a shepherd boy with curly hair;
or perhaps a long-haired page (a boy who attended knights during medieval times) dressed
in red.