...carried out his design. Hence was born Sir Galahad, the stainless knight, of whom it is written : — " My good blade carves the casques of men, My tough...as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure." This Elayne, be it observed, is not the same with the maid of Astolat, whose episode came much later...

...all the Knights of the Round Table, Sir Galahad, besides being one of the bravest, was the purest. " My good blade carves the casques of men, My tough...as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure." Beyond Sir Galahad are introduced the hermit-priest holding before him the sacramental chalice, and...

...turret in which Sir Tristram was confined ? where the postern whence Sir Galahad hastened singing — " My good blade carves the casques of men, My tough...sure ; • My strength is as the strength of ten, Becaxise my heart is pure ?" Was it across those now bare uplands that " Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere...

...sea — The Bridegroom with his bride I SIR GALAHAD. Sly good blade carves the casques of men, Aly tough lance thrusteth sure, My strength is as the...strength of ten, Because my heart is pure. The shattering trnmpetshrilleth high, The hard brands shiver on the steel. The splinter'd spear-shafts erack and fly....

...no longer roam." 45 SIR GALAHAD. MY good blade carves the casques of men, My tough lance thrustetk sure, My strength is as the strength of ten, Because...heart is pure. The shattering trumpet shrilleth high, 5 The hard brands shiver on the steel, The splinter'd spear-shafts crack and fly, The horse and rider...

...us by the brush and genius of Sir Joshua Reynolds. THE COMBAT. KNIGHTHOOD— THE DAYS OF CHIVALRY. " THE SHATTERING TRUMPET 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 LISTS."...

...of unborn infants. No man is better entitled to say, with Sir Galahad, — " My good blade cleaves the casques of men, My tough lance thrusteth sure,...as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure." Against personal violence he seems to bear a charmed life. The stab inflicted by the villain at Newark...

...knights who finds the Holy Grail: " My good blade carves ilie casques of men My tough lance thrustetli sure, My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure." We are sometimes inclined to fight shy of these old masterpieces •of literature for fear that they...

...work, and singing low While her tired husband and her children sleep. Leigh Hunt. 188. 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 lists,...

...porest, if not the highest of all his lyrics. The latter is excellent. Hear the opening stanza : — " My good blade carves the casques of men, My tough...as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure." " In Memoriam " is a monument erected by friendship to the memory of Arthur Henry Hallam, who died...