{"collection":"Northern European Mythology","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/neu/arthur/art151.htm","path":"neu/arthur/art151.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/neu/arthur/art151.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 TIMOR MORTIS\n by\n ERNEST RHYS\n \n \n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \"The thing that I feared is fallen upon me.\"\n \n \n When deadly flesh, oh knight, shall see\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The spiritual things,\n The samite cloth, the Mystery,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The long street where the wings\n Of eagles are the minstrelsy,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And winnow death, like dust away\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Upon a windy day.\n \n Then, if thine arm, like Galahad,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0And thy heart tremble too,\n Heave up, oh knight, thy hands, full glad\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0To know the death he knew\n The samite drawn, the Grail unclad\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Logris and beyond the sea\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0That sails to Ar'mathie.\n \n There, healed and solaced by the Grail,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Thy wounds shall hurt not so:\n But He, that Knight whom men did nail\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Upon the tree shall show\n Those wounds they made, that brow left pale\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0By death, which call and bid thee come\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Safe, oh knight errant, home.\n \n \n \n \n Next: Merlin, by Edwin Arlington Robinson [1917]","title":"Arthurian Miscellany: Timor Mortis, by Ernest Rhys [1905]","type":"page"}