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

...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...

...again : That I will, and happy, and let people say what they will. I am like Sir Galahad, you know; 'my strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is as pure,' pure at least from the sin of envying another man his success. Bye-bye, Mrs. Grantley; come...

...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...

...earves the easques of men, My tough lanee thrusteth sure, My strength is as the strength of ten, Beeause my heart is pure. The shattering trumpet shrilleth high, The hard brands shiver on the steel, The splintered spear-shafts eraek and fly, The horse and rider reel : They reel, they roll in elanging...

...strength of rowdyism may be employed against us. ' My strength," says one of Tennyson's knights — " My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure." That must be our strength, and we hope to employ it better than these Church Defenders. THE RITUALISTS...

...contemplation of unsullied purity : they knew and felt the truth which underlies those words of Tennyson — " My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure" — and they longed to show how this refusal to be tainted with infection, this perpetual looking up...

...wide-— A light upon the shining sea — The Bridegroom with his bride. Alfred Tennyson. SIR OA1AHAD. My good blade carves the casques of men, My tough...tide of combat stands, Perfume and flowers fall in shadows That lightly rain from ladies' hands. How sweet are looks that ladies bend On whom their favours...

...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 splintered spear-shafts crack and fly, And when the tide of combat stands, Perfume and flowers fall...