For when had Lancelot utter'd ought so gross But thou, thro' ever harrying thy wild beasts-- Thy marriage and mine own, that I should suck Will ye not lie? not swear, as there ye kneel, And solemnly as when ye sware to him, The man of men, our King-My God, the power Then Tristram, pacing moodily up and down, 'Vows! did ye keep the vow ye made to Mark More than I mine? Lied, say ye? Nay, but learnt, The vow that binds too strictly snaps itself— My knighthood taught me this-ay, being snaptWe run more counter to the soul thereof Than had we never sworn. I swear no more. I swore to the great King, and am forsworn. For once-ev'n to the height-I honour'd him. "Man, is he man at all?" methought, when first I rode from our rough Lyonesse, and beheld That victor of the Pagan throned in hallHis hair, a sun that ray'd from off a brow Like hillsnow high in heaven, the steel-blue eyes, The golden beard that clothed his lips with lightMoreover, that weird legend of his birth, With Merlin's mystic babble about his end And every follower eyed him as a God; Did mightier deeds than elsewise he had done, Dropt down from heaven? wash'd up from out the deep? Which flesh and blood perforce would violate: Nor shall be: vows-I am woodman of the woods, And hear the garnet-headed yaffingale Mock them my soul, we love but while we may; Here ending, he moved toward her, and she said, As valour may, but he that closes both This knightliest of all knights, and cast thee back He that while she spake, Mindful of what he brought to adorn her with, So then, when both were brought to full accord, She rose, and set before him all he will'd; And after these had comforted the blood With meats and wines, and satiated their hearts— Now talking of their woodland paradise, The deer, the dews, the fern, the founts, the lawns ; Now mocking at the much ungainliness, And craven shifts, and long crane legs of Mark Then Tristram laughing caught the harp, and sang: Ay, ay, O ay-the winds that bend the brier! A star in heaven, a star within the mere! Ay, ay, ay-a star was my desire, And one was far apart, and one was near: And one will ever shine and one will pass. Ay, ay, O ay-the winds that move the merc.' 6 Then in the light's last glimmer Tristram show'd And swung the ruby carcanet. She cried, The collar of some order, which our King Hath newly founded, all for thee, my soul, For thee, to yield thee grace beyond thy peers.' He rose, he turn'd, and flinging round her neck, Out of the dark, just as the lips had touch'd, 'Mark's way,' said Mark, and clove him thro' the brain. That night came Arthur home, and while he climb'd, All in a death-dumb autumn-dripping gloom, The stairway to the hall, and look'd and saw The great Queen's bower was dark,-about his feet A voice clung sobbing till he question'd it, What art thou?' and the voice about his feet Sent up an answer, sobbing, 'I am thy fool, And I shall never make thee smile again.' YEAST. IT T has been known, from time immemorial, that the sweet liquids which may be obtained by expressing the juices of the fruits and stems of various plants, or by steeping malted barley in hot water, or by mixing honey with water-are liable to undergo a series of very singular changes, if freely exposed to the air and left to themselves, in warm weather. However clear and pellucid the liquid may have been, when first prepared, however carefully it may have been freed from even the finest visible impurities, by straining and filtration, it will not remain clear. After a time it will become cloudy and turbid; little bubbles will be seen rising to the surface, and their abundance will increase until the liquid hisses as if it were simmering on the fire. By degrees, some of the solid particles which produce the turbidity of the liquid collect at its surface into a scum, which is blown up by the emerging air-bubbles into a thick, foamy froth. Another moiety sinks to the bottom, and accumulates as a muddy sediment, or "lees." When this action has continued for a certain time, with more or less violence, it gradually moderates. The evolution of bubbles slackens, and finally comes to an end; scum and lees alike settle at the bottom, and the fluid is once more clear and transparent. But it has acquired properties of which no trace existed in the original |