...Excalibur, 220 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...last it seem'd Better to leave Excalibur conceal'd 230 There in the many-knotted waterflags, That whistled stiff and dry about the marge. So strode he...

...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...Myriads of topaz-lights and jacinth-work Of subtlest jewelry. He gazed so long That both his eyes were dazzled, as he stood, This way and that dividing...

...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 sparks, 11 Myriads of topaz-lights, and jacinth-work Of subtlest jewellery. He gazed so long That both his...

...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...gazed so long That both his eyes were dazzled as he be, This way and that dividing the swift mind, In act to throw : but at the last it seem'd Better to...

...sob auras Erigitur summique ferit laquearia tccti. Tennyson (Passing of Arthur) adapts this passage : He gazed so long That both his eyes were dazzled as...and that dividing the swift mind, In act to throw. 283, 284. Agat, audeat, sumat, 208. — 289. Aptent, 169. 295 Dissimulent ; sese interea, quando optima...

...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...but at the last it seem'd Better to leave Excalibur conccal'd There in the many-knotted waterflags, That whistled stiff and dry about the marge. So strode...

...Erigitur summique ferit laquearía tecti. Tennyson (Passiny of Arthur) adapts this passage : He gazed во long That both his eyes were dazzled as he stood,...and that dividing the swift mind, In act to throw. 236 237 Dissimulent; sese interea, quando optima Dido Nesciat et tantos rumpi non speret amores, Tentaturum...

...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 his...

...lake. There drew he forth the brand Excalibur, 220 Brightening the skirts of a long cloud, ran forth And sparkled keen with frost against the hilt : For...sparks, Myriads of topaz-lights, and jacinth-work 225 Of subtlest jewellery. He gazed so long That both his eyes were dazzled as he stood, This way and...

...here is practical rather than Gnostic and metaphysical.71 Like Tennyson's Sir Bedevere, hesitating, "this way and that dividing the swift mind in act to throw," and repeatedly failing to act, the dipsychos person gets nowhere and ends up a lost soul (5:19f.)....