reen brink and the running foam,
ounded arms, and bosoms pressed
s of gold; and, while they mused,
> each other half in fear,

eached them on the middle sea.

vhither away, whither away ? fly no more. om the high green field, and the happy blossom.

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> the billow the fountain calls;

e gambolling waterfalls

over the lea:

green heart of the dells

e silvery-crimson shells,

white bells the clover-hill swella

all-toned sea:

ither, and furl your sails,

me and to me!

her, and frolic and play;

he mew that wails;

you all the day:

, furl your sails,

blissful downs and dales,

rrily carol the gales,

dances in bight and bay,

And the rainbow forms and flies on the land
Over the islands free;

And the rainbow lives in the curve of the sand;
Hither, come hither and see;

And the rainbow hangs on the poising wave,

And sweet is the color of cove and cave,
And sweet shall your welcome be;

O hither, come hither, and be our lords,

We will kiss sweet kisses, and speak sweet words:

O listen, listen, your eyes shall glisten

With pleasure and love and jubilee!

O listen, listen, your eyes shall glisten

When the sharp, clear twang of the golden chords

Runs up the ridgèd sea!

Who can light on as happy a shore

All the world o'er, all the world o'er?

Whither away? listen and stay: mariner, mariner, fly no more

GODIVA.

I waited for the train at Coventry ;

I hung with grooms and porters on the bridge,
To watch the three tall spires; and there I shaped

The city's ancient legend into this:-.
Not only we, the latest seed of Time,

New men, that in the flying of a wheel

Cry down the past, not only we, that prate

Of rights and wrongs, have loved the people well,
And loathed to see them overtaxed; but she
Did more, and underwent, and overcame,
The woman of a thousand summers back,
Godiva, wife of that grim Earl, who ruled
In Coventry: for when he laid a tax

Upon his town, and all the mothers brought

Their children, clamoring, "If we pay, we starve !" She sought her lord, and found him, where he strode. About the hall, among his dogs, alone,

His beard a foot before him, and his hair

A yard behind. She told him of their tears,

And prayed him, "If they pay this tax, they starve." Whereat he stared, replying half-amazed,

"You would not let your little finger ache

For such as these?".
'—“But I would die," said she.

He laughed, and swore by Peter and by Paul:
Then filliped at the diamond in her ear;
"O ay, ay, ay, you talk !"—" Alas!" she said,
"But prove me what it is I would not do."
And from a heart as rough as Esau's hand,
He answered, “Rile you naked through the town,
And I repeal it ;" and nodding, as in scorn,
He parted, with great strides among his dogs.

So left alone, the passions of her mind,
As winds from all the compass shift and blow,
Made war upon each other for an hour,

Till pity won.

She sent a herald forth,

And bade him cry, with sound of trumpet, all
The hard condition; but that she would loose
The people therefore, as they loved her well,"
From then till noon no foot should pace the street,
No eye look down, she passing; but that all
Should keep within, door shut, and window barred.
Then fled she to her inmost bower, and there
Unclasped the wedded eagles of her belt,
The grim Earl's gift; but ever at a breath
She lingered, looking like a summer moon
Half-dipped in cloud: anon she shook her head,
And showered the rippled ringlets to her knee,
Unclad herself in haste; aaown the stair
Stole on; and, like a creeping sunbeam, slid
From pillar unto pillar, until she reached
The gateway; there she found her palfrey trapped
In purple blazoned with armorial gold.

Then she rode forth, clothed on with chastity:
The deep air listened round her as she rode,
And all the low wind hardly breathed for fear.
The little wide-mouthed heads upon the spout
Had cunning eyes to see: the barking cur
Made her cheek flame: her palfrey's footfall shot
Light horrors through her pulses: the blind walls
Were full of chinks and holes; and overheard
Fantastic gables, crowding, stared: but she
Not less through all bore up, till, last, she saw

The white-flowered elder thicket from the field
Gleam through the Gothic archways in the wall.

Then she rode back, clothed on with chastity.
And one low churl, compact of thankless earth,
The fatal byword of all years to come,
Boring a little auger-hole in fear,

Peeped-but his eyes, before they had their will,
Were shrivelled into darkness in his head,

And dropped before him. So the Powers, who wait
On noble deeds, cancelled a sense misused;

And she, that knew not, passed and all at once,

With twelve great shocks of sound, the shameless noon
Was clashed and hammered from a hundred towers,
One after one but even then she gained

Her bower; whence reissuing, robed and crowned,
To meet her lord, she took the tax away,

And built herself an everlasting name.

SIR GALAHAD.

My good blade carves the

casques of

men,

My tough lance thrusteth sure,

My strength is as the strength of ten,
Because my heart is pure.

The shattering trumpet shrilleth high,

The hard brands shiver on the steel,
The splintered spear-shafts crack and fly,
The horse and rider reel :