...contemplation of unsullied purity : they knew and felt the truth which underlies those words of Tennyson — " My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure" — and they longed to show how this refusal to be tainted with infection, this perpetual looking up...

...wide-— A light upon the shining sea — The Bridegroom with his bride. Alfred Tennyson. SIR OA1AHAD. My good blade carves the casques of men, My tough...heart is pure. The shattering trumpet shrilleth high. The hard brands shiver on the steel ; The splinter'd spear-shafts crack and fly, The horse and rider...

...which we have had occasion once already to refer. This is the same Sir Galahad who says and feels — " My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure ;" — this is the "just and faithful knight of God," doing frequent and perilous battle, and going...

...One sabbath deep and wide — A light upon the shining sea — The Bridegroom with his bride ! SIR GALAHAD. MY good blade carves the casques of men,...heart is pure. The shattering trumpet shrilleth high, The hard brands shiver on the steel, The splintered spear-shafts crack and fly, And when the tide of...

...One sabbath deep and wide — A light upon the shining sea — The Bridegroom with his bride I SIR GALAHAD. MY good blade carves the casques of men,...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...

...Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and upbuild it again. SHELLEY. SIR GALAHAD. My good blade carves the casques of men,...thrusteth sure, My strength is as the strength of teli. Because my heart is pure. The shattering trumpet shrilleth high, The hard brands shiver on the...

...deep and wide — A light upon the shining sea — The Bridegroom with his bride ! SIR GALAHAD. i. MY good blade carves the casques of men, My tough...heart is pure. The shattering trumpet shrilleth high, The hard brands shiver on the steel, The splintered spear-shafts crack and fly, And when the tide of...

...One sabbath deep and wide — A light upon the shining sea — The Bridegroom with his bride ! SIR GALAHAD. MY good blade carves the casques of men,...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...

...purity, whose special champions they were. He wrote in an early poem of Sir Galahad, who could say, " My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure." And we cannot but grieve that he has chosen in the Idylls, one at least most questionable incident,...

...live. Then each may say, not proudly or exultingly, but thankfully to God, the giver of all good — "'My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure' "Band together for holiness, for truth, for temperance, which is the handmaid of these, without which,...