StoryTitle("caps", "The Passing of Arthur") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So all day long the noise of battle roll'd", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Among the mountains by the winter sea.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Until King Arthur's Table, man by man,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Had fall'n in Lyonnesse about their Lord,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "King Arthur. Then, because his wound was deep,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The bold Sir Bedivere uplifted him,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And bore him to a chapel nigh the field,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A broken chancel with a broken cross.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That stood on a dark strait of barren land:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On one side lay the Ocean, and on one", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lay a great water, and the moon was full.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then spake King Arthur to Sir Bedivere:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0SQ", "", "\"The sequel of to-day unsolders all", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The goodliest fellowship of famous knights", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whereof this world holds record. Such a sleep", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They sleep—the men I loved. I think that we", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Shall never more, at any future time,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Delight our souls with talk of knightly deeds,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Walking about the gardens and the halls", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of Camelot, as in the days that were.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I perish by this people which I made—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Tho' Merlin sware that I should come again", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To rule once more; but, let what will be, be,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I am so deeply smitten thro' the helm", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That without help I cannot last till morn.", "") ?>
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PoemLine("L0", "", "Thou therefore take my brand Excalibur,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Which was my pride: for thou rememberest how", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In those old days, one summer noon, an arm", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Rose up from out the bosom of the lake,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Clothed in white samite, mystic, wonderful,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Holding the sword—and how I row'd across", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And took it, and have worn it, like a king;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And, wheresoever I am sung or told", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In aftertime, this also shall be known:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But now delay not: take Excalibur,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And fling him far into the middle mere:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Watch what thou seest and lightly bring me word.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To him replied the bold Sir Bedivere:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0SQ", "", "\"It is not meet, Sir King, to leave thee thus,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Aidless, alone, and smitten thro' the helm—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A little thing may harm a wounded man;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet I thy hest will all perform at full,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Watch what I see, and lightly bring thee word.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So saying, from the ruin'd shrine he stept,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And in the moon athwart the place of tombs,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where lay the mighty bones of ancient men,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Old knights, and over them the sea-wind sang", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Shrill, chill, with flakes of foam. He, stepping down", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "By zigzag paths, and juts of pointed rock,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Came on the shining levels of the lake.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There drew he forth the brand Excalibur,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And o'er him, drawing it, the winter moon,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Brightening the skirts of a long cloud, ran forth", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And sparkled keen with frost against the hilt:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For all the haft twinkled with diamond sparks,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Myriads of topaz-lights, and jacinth-work", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of subtlest jewellery. He gazed so long", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That both his eyes were dazzled, as he stood,", "") ?>
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PoemLine("L0", "", "This way and that dividing the swift mind,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In act to throw: but at the last it seem'd", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Better to leave Excalibur conceal'd", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There in the many-knotted water flags,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That whistled stiff and dry about the marge.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So strode he back slow to the wounded King.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then spake King Arthur to Sir Bedivere:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0SQ", "", "\"Hast thou perform'd my mission which I gave?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What is it thou hast seen? or what hast heard?\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And answer made the bold Sir Bedivere:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0SQ", "", "\"I heard the ripple washing in the reeds,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the wild water lapping on the crag.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To whom replied King Arthur, faint and pale:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0SQ", "", "\"Thou hast betray'd thy nature and thy name,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Not rendering true answer, as beseem'd", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thy fealty, nor like a noble knight:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For surer sign had followed either hand,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or voice, or else a motion of the mere.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "This is a shameful thing for men to lie.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet now, I charge thee, quickly go again,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As thou art lief and dear, and do the thing", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I bade thee, watch, and lightly bring me word.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then went Sir Bedivere the second time", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Across the ridge, and paced beside the mere,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Counting the dewy pebbles, fix'd in thought;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But when he saw the wonder of the hilt,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "How curiously and strangely chased, he smote", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His palms together, and he cried aloud:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0SQ", "", "\"And if indeed I cast the brand away,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Surely a precious thing, one worthy note,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Should thus be lost forever from the earth,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Which might have pleased the eyes of many men.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What good should follow this, if this were done?", "") ?>
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PoemLine("L0", "", "What harm, undone? Deep harm to disobey,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Seeing obedience is the bond of rule.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Were it well to obey then, if a king demand", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "An act unprofitable, against himself?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The King is sick, and knows not what he does.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What record, or what relic of my lord", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Should be to aftertime, but empty breath", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And rumours of a doubt? but were this kept,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Stored in some treasure-house of mighty kings,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Some one might show it at a joust of arms,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Saying, 'King Arthur's sword, Excalibur,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wrought by the lonely maiden of the Lake.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nine years she wrought it, sitting in the deeps", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Upon the hidden bases of the hills.'", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So might some old man speak in the aftertime", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To all the people, winning reverence.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But now much honour and much fame were lost.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So spake he, clouded with his own conceit,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And hid Excalibur the second time,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And so strode back slow to the wounded King.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then spoke King Arthur, breathing heavily:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"What is it thou hast seen? or what hast heard?\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And answer made the bold Sir Bedivere:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0SQ", "", "\"I heard the water lapping on the crag,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the long ripple washing in the reeds.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To whom replied King Arthur, much in wrath:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0SQ", "", "\"Ah, miserable and unkind, untrue,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Unknightly, traitor-hearted! Woe is me!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Authority forgets a dying king,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Laid widow'd of the power in his eye", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That bow'd the will. I see thee what thou art,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For thou, the latest-left of all my knights,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In whom should meet the offices of all,", "") ?>
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PoemLine("L0", "", "Thou wouldst betray me for the precious hilt;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Either from lust of gold, or like a girl", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Valuing the giddy pleasure of the eyes.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet, for a man may fail in duty twice,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the third time may prosper, get thee hence:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But, if thou spare to fling Excalibur,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I will arise and slay thee with my hands.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then quickly rose Sir Bedivere, and ran,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And, leaping down the ridges lightly, plunged", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Among the bulrush beds, and clutch'd the sword,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And strongly wheel'd and threw it. The great brand", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Made lightings in the splendour of the moon,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And flashing round and round, and whirl'd in an arch,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Shot like a streamer of the northern morn,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Seen where the moving isles of winter shock", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "By night with noises of the Northern Sea.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So flashed and fell the brand Excalibur:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But ere he dipt the surface, rose an arm", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Clothed in white samite, mystic, wonderful,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And caught him by the hilt, and brandish'd him", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Three times, and drew him under in the mere.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And lightly went the other to the King.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then spoke King Arthur, drawing thicker breath:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0SQ", "", "\"Now see I by thine eyes that this is done.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Speak out: what is it thou hast heard, or seen?\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And answer made the bold Sir Bedivere:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0SQ", "", "\"Sir King, I closed mine eyelids, lest the gems", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Should blind my purpose, for I never saw,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nor shall see, here or elsewhere, till I die,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Not tho' I live three lives of mortal men,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So great a miracle as yonder hilt.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then with both hands I flung him, wheeling him;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But when I look'd again, beheld an arm,", "") ?>
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PoemLine("L0", "", "Clothed in white samite, mystic, wonderful.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That caught him by the hilt, and brandished him", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Three times, and drew him under In the mere.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And answer made King Arthur, breathing hard:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0SQ", "", "\"My end draws nigh;'tis time that I were gone.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Make broad thy shoulders to receive my weight,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And bear me to the margin; yet I fear", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My wound hath taken cold, and I shall die.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So saying, from the pavement he half rose,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Slowly, with pain, reclining on his arm,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And looking wistfully with wide blue eyes", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As in a picture. Him Sir Bedivere", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Remorsefully regarded thro' his tears,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And would have spoken, but he found not word;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then took with care, and kneeling on one knee,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O'er both his shoulders drew the languid hands,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And rising bore him thro' the place of tombs.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But, as he walk'd, King Arthur panted hard,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Like one that feels a nightmare on his bed", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When all the house is mute. So sigh'd the King,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Muttering and murmuring at his ear, \"Quick, quick!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I fear it is too late, and I shall die.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But the other swiftly strode from ridge to ridge,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Clothed with his breath, and looking, as he walk'd,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Larger than human on the frozen hills.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He heard the deep behind him, and a cry", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Before. His own thought drove him like a goad.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Dry clashed his harness in the icy caves", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And barren chasms, and all to left and right", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The bare black cliff clang'd round him, as he based", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His feet on juts of slippery crag that rang", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sharp-smitten with the dint of armed heels—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And on a sudden, lo! the level lake,", "") ?>
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PoemLine("L0", "", "And the long glories of the winter moon.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then saw they how there hove a dusky barge,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Dark as a funeral scarf from stern to stern,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Beneath them; and descending they were ware", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That all the decks were dense with stately forms,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Black-stoled, black-hooded, like a dream—by these", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Three Queens with crowns of gold: and from them rose", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A cry that shiver'd to the tingling stars,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And, as it were one voice, an agony", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of lamentation, like a wind that shrills", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All night in a waste land, where no one comes", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or hath come, since the making of the world.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then murmur'd Arthur, \"Place me in the barge.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So to the barge they came. There those three Queens", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Put forth their hands, and took the King, and wept.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But she, that rose the tallest of them all", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And fairest, laid his head upon her lap,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And loosed the shatter'd casque, and chafed his hands,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And call'd him by his name, complaining loud,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And dropping bitter tears against a brow", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Striped with dark blood: for all his face was white", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And colourless, and like the withered moon", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Smote by the fresh beam of the springing east;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And all his greaves and cuisses dash'd with drops", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of onset; and the light and lustrous curls—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That made his forehead like a rising sun", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "High from the dias-throne—were parch'd with dust;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or, clotted into points and hanging loose,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Mix'd with the knightly growth that fringed his lips.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So like a shatter'd column lay the King;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Not like that Arthur who, with lance in rest,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "From spur to plume a star of tournament,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Shot thro' the lists of Camelot, and charged", "") ?>
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PoemLine("L0", "", "Before the eyes of ladles and of kings,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then loudly cried the bold Sir Bedivere:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0SQ", "", "\"Ah! my Lord Arthur, whither shall I go?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where shall I hide my forehead and my eyes?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For now I see the true old times are dead,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When every morning brought a noble chance,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And every chance brought out a noble knight.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Such times have been not since the light that led", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The holy Elders with the gift of myrrh.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But now the whole Round Table is dissolved", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Which was an image of the mighty world,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And, I the last, go forth companionless,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the days darken round me, and the years,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Among new men, strange faces, other minds.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And slowly answered Arthur from the barge:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0SQ", "", "\"The old order changeth, yielding place to new,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And God fulfils himself in many ways,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Comfort thyself: what comfort is in me?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I have lived my life, and that which I have done", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "May He within himself make pure! but thou,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If thou shouldst never see my face again,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Rise like a fountain for me night and day.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For what are men better than sheep or goats", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That nourish a blind life within the brain,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Both for themselves and those who call them friend?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For so the whole round earth is every way", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But now farewell. I am going a long way", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With these thou seest-if indeed I go", "") ?>
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PoemLine("L0", "", "(For all my mind is clouded with a doubt)", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To the island-valley of Avilion;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard lawns", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So said he, and the barge with oar and sail", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Moved from the brink, like some full-breasted swan", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That, fluting a wild carol ere her death,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ruffles her pure cold plume, and takes the flood", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With swarthy webs. Long stood Sir Bedivere", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Revolving many memories, till the hull", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Look'd one black dot against the verge of dawn,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And on the mere the wailing died away.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But when that moan had past for evermore,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The stillness of the dead world's winter dawn", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Amazed him, and he groan'd, \"The King is gone.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And therewithal came on him the weird rhyme,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0SQ", "", "\"From the great deep to the great deep he goes\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whereat he slowly turn'd and slowly clomb", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The last hard footstep of that iron crag;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thence mark'd the black hull moving yet, and cried,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0SQ", "", "\"He passes to be King among the dead,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And after healing of his grievous wound", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He comes again; but—if he come no more—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O me, be yon dark Queens in yon black boat,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who shriek'd and wail'd, the three whereat we gazed", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On that high day, when, clothed with living light,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They stood before his throne in silence, friends", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of Arthur, who should help him at his need?\"", "") ?>
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PoemLine("L0", "", "Then from the dawn it seem'd there came, but faint", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As from beyond the limit of the world,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Like the last echo born of a great cry,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sounds, as if some fair city were one voice", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Around a king returning from his wars.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thereat once more he moved about, and clomb", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ev'n to the highest he could climb, and saw,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Straining his eyes beneath an arch of hand,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or thought he saw, the speck that bare the King,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Down that long water opening on the deep", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Somewhere far off, pass on and on, and go", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "From less to less and vanish into light.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the new sun rose bringing the new year.", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>