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

...child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and upbuild it again. SHELLEY. SIR GALAHAD. My good blade carves the casques of men, My tough...thrusteth sure, My strength is as the strength of teli. Because my heart is pure. The shattering trumpet shrilleth high, The hard brands shiver on the...

...me to the golden doors ; The flashes come and go ; All heaven bursts her starry floors, And strews her lights below, And deepens on and up ! the gates...shrilleth high, The hard brands shiver on the steel, The splintered spear-shafts crack and fly, And when the tide of combat stands, Perfume and flowers fall...

...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 splintered spear-shafts crack and fly, The horse and rider reel : They reel, they roll in clanging...

...purity, whose special champions they were. He wrote in an early poem of Sir Galahad, who could say, " My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure." And we cannot but grieve that he has chosen in the Idylls, one at least most questionable incident,...

...live. Then each may say, not proudly or exultingly, but thankfully to God, the giver of all good — "'My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure' "Band together for holiness, for truth, for temperance, which is the handmaid of these, without which,...

...which it had been preserved through hundreds of years. Mark the deep Christian truth of this verse :— My good blade carves the casques of men, My tough...the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure. The Morte d'Arthur, too, is richly significant; yet not so much perhaps for itself—though some of the...

...liad been preserved through hundreds of years. Mark the deep Christian truth of this verse : — • My good blade carves the casques of men, My tough...thrusteth sure, My strength is as the strength of ten, Became my heart i» pure. The Morte d' 'Arthur, too, is richly significant ; yet not so much perhaps...

...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 splintered spear-shafts crack and fly, The horse and rider reel : They reel, they roll in clanging...

...with gentleness and purity. The Poet Laureate has taught us this in the words of Sir Galahad : — ' ' My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure." slaughter of animals for amusement to those who have been condemned to it by tradition and education....