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Here her hand Grasped made her vail her eyes. She looked and saw

The novice, weeping, suppliant, and said to her,

"Yea, little maid, for am I not forgiven?" Then glancing up beheld the holy nuns 660 All round her, weeping; and her heart was loosed

Within her, and she wept with these and said:

"Ye know me then, that wicked one, who broke

The vast design and purpose of the King. O, shut me round with narrowing nunnery-walls,

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This heard the bold Sir Bedivere and spake:

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"O me, my King, let pass whatever will, Elves, and the harmless glamor of the field;

But in their stead thy name and glory cling

To all high places like a golden cloud For ever; but as yet thou shalt not pass. 55 Light was Gawain in life, and light in death

Is Gawain, for the ghost is as the man; And care not thou for dreams from him, but rise

I hear the steps of Modred in the west, And with him many of thy people, and knights

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Delight our souls with talk of knightly Shrill, chill, with flakes of foam. He,

deeds,

Walking about the gardens and the halls
Of Camelot, as in the days that were.
I perish by this people which I made,
Though Merlin sware that I should come

again

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stepping down

By zigzag paths and juts of pointed rock,
Came on the shining levels of the lake.

There drew he forth the brand Excalibur,

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To rule once more but let what will be, And o'er him, drawing it, the winter moon, Brightening the skirts of a long cloud, ran forth

be:

I am so deeply smitten through the helm
That without help I cannot last till morn.
Thou therefore take my brand Ex-
calibur,

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Which was my pride; for thou rememberest how

In those old days, one summer noon, an

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What is it thou hast seen? or what hast heard?"

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Where lay the mighty bones of ancient Thy fealty, nor like a noble knight;

men,

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Old knights, and over them the sea-wind

sang

For surer sign had followed, either hand,
Or voice, or else a motion of the mere. 245
This is a shameful thing for men to lie.

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