...Firtt Free Lance (Boulanger). " Mr good blade carves the casques of men, My tough lance thruste th sure, My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure. Ahem ! No Tennysonian knight Am I ; yet 'twere not bad, With matters in their present plight, To pose...

...deep and wide — A light upon the shining sea — The Bridegroom with his bride ! SIR GALAHAD. i. MY good blade carves the casques of men, My tough...shrilleth high, The hard brands shiver on the steel, The splinter'd spear-shafts crack and fly, The horse and rider reel : They reel, they roll in clanging...

...which we have had occasion once already to refer. This is the same Sir Galahad who says and feels — " My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure ;" — this is the "just and faithful knight of God," doing frequent and perilous battle, and going...

...sabbath deep and wide — A light upon the shining sea — The Bridegroom with his bride ! SIR GALAHAD. MY good blade carves the casques of men, My tough...shrilleth high, The hard brands shiver on the steel, The splinter'd spear-shafts crack and fly, The horse and rider reel : They reel, they roll in clanging...

...that I were dead I" SIR GALAHAD. Мт good blade carves the casques of men, My tough lance thrueteth sure, My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure. The shattering trumpet ehrillcth high, The hard brands shiver on the steel, The splinter'd spear-shafts crack and fly, The...

...deep and wide — A light upon the shining sea — The Bridegroom with his bride ! SIR GALAHAD. I. MY good blade carves the casques of men, My tough...shrilleth high, The hard brands shiver on the steel, The splinter 'd spear-shafts crack and fly, The horse and rider reel : They reel, they roll in clanging...

...not come," she said ; She wept, " I am aweary, aweary, Oh God, that I were dead !" SIR GALAHAD. Mr good blade carves the casques of men, My tough lance...strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pare. The shattering trumpet shrilleth high, The hard brands shiver on the steel, The splinter'd spear-shafts...

...sabbath deep and wide— A light upon the shining sea— The Bridegroom with his bride ! SIR GALAHAD. MY good blade carves the casques of men, My tough...shrilleth high, The hard brands shiver on the steel, The splinter'd spear-shafts crack and fly, The horse and rider reel: They reel, they roll in clanging lists,...

...consciousness that the poetry has cost the author some severe hammering, welding, and polishing : — " The shattering trumpet shrilleth high, The hard brands shiver on the steel, The splinter'd spear-shafts crack and fly, And horse and rider reel. They reel, they roll in clanging lists,...

...pervasive sense of strength and freedom, and a still deeper sense of moral harmony and lightness. " My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure.'' It is also of great advantage to lead a reguPURITY. 225 lar life and one of incessant occupation. Have...