{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/arthur/art021.htm","path":"neu/arthur/art021.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/arthur/art021.htm","text":"Sacred Texts\u00a0\n Legends/Sagas\u00a0\n England\u00a0\n Index\u00a0\n Previous\u00a0\n Next\u00a0\n \n \n An Arthurian Miscellany\n ARTHUR IN AVALON\n by\n J. ARTHUR BLAIKIE\n FROM THE PICTURE BY T. ARCHER, R.S.A. \n \n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I.\n \n STRICKEN of man, and sore beset of Fate,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0He lies amid the groves of Avalon;\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0What comfort mete ye unto Uther's son,\n O mournful Queens? What styptic to abate\n Life's eager stream? Alas, not theirs to sate\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0His soul with earthly vision! he hath done\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0With mortal life, and chivalry's bright sun\n Is darkened by the powers of hell and hate.\n \n Lo! now, the garden of his agony\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Is very sweet, though dread the hour, and drear\n With utterless spell of horrid potency;\n The barr\u00e8d east beyond the brightening sea,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Thick with portentous wraiths of phantom fear,\n Is flushed with triumph, stirred with melody.\n \n \n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0II.\n \n \"Glory of knighthood; that through Lyonesse\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Was as a lamp, O selfless soul and pure,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0What though thy visionary rule endure\n So ill the assault of envy? Not the less\n Thy victory, though failure thee oppress;\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Not sterile thy example, and most sure\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The seeded fruit; with might thou shalt allure\n For evermore through life's embattled press\n \n Thy spiritual sons to follow thee;\"\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The mystic Four their solemn vigil keep\n Until day break, and eastward silently,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Over the kingless land and wailing deep,\n The sacrificial symbol fire the sky;\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Then they arise, no more to watch and weep.\n \n \n \n \n Next: The Wisdom of Merlyn, by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt [1914]","title":"Arthurian Miscellany: Arthur in Avalon, by J. Arthur Blaikie [1884]","type":"page"}