So flash'd and fell the brand Excalibur : But ere he dipt the surface, rose an arm Clothed in white samite, mystic, wonderful, And caught him by the hilt, and brandish'd him Three times, and drew him under in the mere. Literature: A Fifth Reader - Page 255by Edward Everett Hale (Jr.), Adaline Wheelock Sterling - 1901 - 512 pagesFull view - About this book
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...great brand, Made lightnings in the splendour of the moon, And flashing round and round, and whirled in an arch, Shot like a streamer of the northern morn,...brandish'd him Three times, and drew him under in the meer. And lightly went the other to the King. " Now see I by thine eyes that this is done. Speak out... | |
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...great brand Made lightnings in the splendour of the moon, And flashing round and round, and whirl'd in an arch, Shot like a streamer of the northern morn,...brandish'd him Three times, and drew him under in the meer. And lightly went the other to the King. Then spoke King Arthur, drawing thicker breath : " Now... | |
| Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 pages
...great brand Made lightnings in the splendour of the moon, And flashing round and round, and whirl'd in an arch. Shot like a streamer of the northern morn,...mystic, wonderful, And caught him by the hilt, and brandish 'd him Three times, and drew him under in the meer. And lightly went the other to the King.... | |
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| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - English poetry - 1851 - 276 pages
...great brand Made lightnings in the splendor of the moon, And flashing round and round, and whirled in an arch, Shot like a streamer of the northern morn,...shock By night, with noises of the northern sea. So flashed and fell the brand Excalibur: But ere he dipt the surface, rose an arm Clothed in white samite,... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1853 - 404 pages
...wheeling him ; But when I look'd again, behold an arm, Clothed in white samite, mystic, wonderful, That caught him by the hilt, and brandish'd him Three times, and drew him under in the mere." And answer made King Arthur, breathing hard : " My end draws nigh ; 'tis time that I were gone. Make broad... | |
| Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - Humanities - 1898 - 248 pages
...twinkled with diamond sparks, Myriads of topaz-lights, and jacinth work Of subtlest jewellery. So flashed and fell the brand Excalibur: But ere he dipt the...brandish'd him, Three times and drew him under in the mere. Thus passes Arthur. Here the artist loses perhaps somewhat of the allegorical, but he gains of the... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1854 - 286 pages
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| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1854 - 284 pages
...morn, Seen where the moving isles of winter shock By night, with noises of the northern sea. So flashed and fell the brand Excalibur : But ere he dipt the...mystic, wonderful, And caught him by the hilt, and brandished him Three times, and drew him under in the meer. And lightly went the other to the King.... | |
| Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1855 - 404 pages
...great brand Made lightnings in the splendour of the moon, And flashing round and round, and whirl'd in an arch, Shot like a streamer of the northern morn,...mystic, wonderful, And caught him by the hilt, and brandish' d him Three times, and drew him under in the mere. And lightly went the other to the King.... | |
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