...Excalibur, And o'er him, drawing it, the winter moon, Brightening the skirts of a long cloud, ran forth And sparkled keen with frost against the hilt: For all the haft twinkled with diamond studs, Myriads of topaz-lights, and jacinth-work Of subtlest jewellery. He gazed so long That both...

...Excalibur, And o'er him, drawing it, the winter moon, Brightening the skirts of a long cloud, ran forth And, sparkled keen with frost against the hilt : For all the haft twinkled with diamond studs, Myriads of topaz-lights, and jacinth-work Of subtlest jewellery. He gazed so long That both...

...Excalibur, And o'er him, drawing it, the winter moon, Brightening the skirts of a long cloud, ran forth And sparkled keen with frost against the hilt : For all the haft twinkled with diamond studs, Myriads of topaz-lights, and jacinth-work Of subtlest jewellery. He gazed so long That both...

...forth And sparkled keen with frost against the hilt : For all the haft twinkled with diamond studs, Myriads of topaz-lights, and jacinth-work Of subtlest...the swift mind, In act to throw : but at the last it seem'J Better to leave Excalibur conceal 'd There in the many-knotted waterflags, That whistled stiff...

...Excalibur, And o'er him, drawing it, the winter moon, Brightening the skirts of a long cloud, ran forth And sparkled keen with frost against the hilt : For all the haft twinkled with diamond studs, Myriads of topaz-lights, and jacinth-work Of subtlest jewellery. He gazed so long That both...

...if not unintelligible to tbe uninitiated, as when he says that Sir Bedivere stood with Excalibur, l; This way and that dividing the swift mind In act to throw ;" which reads very stiff till you recollect the Homeric PETERS. I would go further yet, and say that...

...Excalibur, And o'er him, drawing it, the winter moon, Brightening the skirts of a long cloud, ran forth And sparkled keen with frost against the hilt: For all the haft twinkled with diamond studs, Myriads of topaz-lights, and jacinth-work Of subtlest jewellery. He gazed so long That both...

...forth And sparkled keen with frost against the hilt : Tor all the haft twinkled with diamond studs, Myriads of topaz-lights, and jacinth-work Of subtlest...dividing the swift mind, In act to throw : but at the hist it seem'd Better to leave Excalibur conceal'd There in the many-knotted waterflags, That whistled...

...Excalibur, And o'er him, drawing it, the winter moon, Brightening the skirts of a long cloud, ran forth And sparkled keen with frost against the hilt : For all the haft twinkled with diamond studs, Myriads of topaz-lights, and jacinth-work Of subtlest jewellery. He gazed so long That both...

...Brightening the skirts of a long cloud, ran forth, And sparkled keen with frost against the hill ; For all the haft 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 surface,...