...Arthur,' when Sir Bedivere returns to the king a second time, Arthur asks him : — ' breathing heavily, What is it thou hast seen ? or what hast heard ? And answer made the bold Sir Bedivere, I beard the water lapping on the crag, And the long ripple washing in the reeds.' What a wonderful sense...

...but at the last it seem'd Better to leave Excalibur conceal'd There in the many-knotted waterflags, That whistled stiff and dry about the marge. So strode...Bedivere : " Hast thou perform'd my mission which I gave 1 What is it thou hast seen 1 or what hast heard ?" And answer made the bold Sir Bedivere : " I heard...

...second time, And so strode back slow to the wounded King. Then spoke King Arthur, breathing heavily : " What is it thou hast seen ? or what hast heard ? "...answer made the bold Sir Bedivere : " I heard the water lapping on the crag, And the long ripple washing in the reeds." To whom replied King Arthur,...

...but at the last it seem'd Better to leave Excalibur conceal'd There in the many-knotted waterflags, That whistled stiff and dry about the marge. So strode...my mission which I gave ? What is it thou hast seen 1 or what hast heard ? " And answer made the bold Sir Bedivere : " I heard the ripple washing in the...

...remarkiug that wan, meaning dark, gloomy, ' This answer Tennyson has expanded into the well-known lines — "I heard the ripple washing in the reeds, And the wild water lapping on the crag ;" slightly varied, for the other occasion, into — " I heard the water lapping on the crag, And the...

...but at the last it seem'd Better to leave Excalibur eonceal'd There in the many-knotted waterflags, That whistled stiff and dry about the marge. So strode...Then spake King Arthur to Sir Bedivere : " Hast thou perform 'd my mission which I gave? What is it thou hast seen? or what hast heard t " And answer made...

...second time, And so strode back slow to the wounded King. Then spoke King Arthur, breathing heavily : " What is it thou hast seen ? or what hast heard ? And...answer made the bold Sir Bedivere : " I heard the water lapping on the crag, And the long ripple washing in the reeds." To whom replied King Arthur,...

...but at the last it seem'J Better to leave Excalibur conceal 'd There in the many-knotted waterflags, That whistled stiff and dry about the marge. So strode he back alow to the wounded king. Then spake King Arthur to Sir Bedivere : " Hast thou perform'd my mission...

...throw it in." Idyll.— Then sp:ike King Arthur to Sir Bedivere... " What is it thou hast seen Î "... And answer made the bold Sir Bedivere, " I heard the...lapping on the crag." To whom replied King Arthur, " Thou hast betr.iyed tliy nature... Not rendering true answer... I charge thee, quickly go »gain,...

...but at the last it seemed Better to leave Excalibur concealed There in the many-knotted waterflags, That whistled stiff and dry about the marge. So strode...Then spake King Arthur to Sir Bedivere : " Hast thou performed my mission which I gave ? What is it thou hast seen ? or what hast heard ? " And answer made...