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Abbey adventure Alfred Lord Tennyson Arthurian beautiful Brooke brother Camelot castle cents Chrestien's cloth cried death dragon edition of 1869 English eyes fell French Gareth Glastonbury Globe glory Grand Saint Graal Guinevere hall hast healed heard heart heathen heaven hermit Holy Grail Holy Vessel Hucher Ibid Idylls Jesus Joseph of Arimathæa King Arthur knights Lady lance Lancelot legend Line Lord Tennyson maiden Malory Malory's mediæval Memoir Memoriam Merlin Morte Darthur never Newell Nutt o'er old romances Parsifal Parzival Perceval le Gallois Percivale's poem poet Potvin prose Queen quest rode Round Table samite Sangreal seen Siege Perilous silver Sir Bors Sir Ector Sir Galahad Sir Gawaine Sir Launcelot Sir Perceval Sir Percivale sorrow spake spiritual story sware sword Table Round thee thou thro told tournament unto vision voice White Horse Wolfram von Eschenbach Wolfram's XVII
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Page 5 - MY good blade carves the casques of men, My tough lance thrusteth sure, My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure.
Page 106 - This water his blood that died on the tree; The Holy Supper is kept, indeed, In whatso we share with another's need; Not what we give, but what we share, ! For the gift without the giver is bare; Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbor, and me.
Page 41 - LOVE is and was my Lord and King, And in his presence I attend To hear the tidings of my friend, Which every hour his couriers bring. Love is and was my King and Lord, And will be, tho...
Page 6 - When down the stormy crescent goes, A light before me swims, Between dark stems the forest glows, I hear a noise of hymns: Then by some secret shrine I ride; I hear a voice, but none are there; 30 The stalls are void, the doors are wide, The tapers burning fair.
Page 92 - Let visions of the night or of the day Come, as they will ; and many a time they come, Until this earth he walks on seems not earth, This light that strikes his eyeball is not light, This air that smites his forehead is not air But vision — yea, his very hand and foot — In moments when he feels he cannot die, And knows himself no vision to himself, Nor the high God a vision, nor that One Who rose again : ye have seen what ye have seen.
Page 105 - In his gilded mail, that flamed so bright It seemed the dark castle had gathered all Those shafts the fierce sun had shot over its wall In his siege of three hundred summers long...
Page 97 - And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom ; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
Page 7 - ... bear the holy Grail: With folded feet, in stoles of white, On sleeping wings they sail. Ah, blessed vision ! blood of God ! My spirit beats her mortal bars, As down dark tides the glory slides And star-like mingles with the stars. ' . "When on my goodly charger borne Thro' dreaming towns I go, The cock crows ere the Christmas morn, The streets are dumb with snow.
Page 7 - A rolling organ-harmony Swells up, and shakes and falls. Then move the trees, the copses nod, Wings flutter, voices hover clear : ' O just and faithful knight of God ! Ride on ! the prize is near.
Page 92 - And some among you held, that if the King Had seen the sight he would have sworn the vow: Not easily, seeing that the King must guard That which he rules, and is but as the hind To whom a space of land is given to plow.