Idylls of the King by Lord Tennyson Alfred

Author:Lord Tennyson Alfred [Alfred, Lord Tennyson]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: King--Poetry, Arthur, Arthurian romances--Adaptations, Knights and knighthood--Poetry
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
Published: 2015-05-12T00:01:00+00:00

Then Mer­lin to his own heart, loath­ing, said:

“O true and tender! O my liege and King!

O self­less man and stain­less gen­tle­man,

Who wouldst against thine own eye-wit­ness fain

Have all men true and leal, all wo­men pure;

How, in the mouths of base in­ter­pret­ers,

From over-fine­ness not in­tel­li­gible

To things with every sense as false and foul

As the poached filth that floods the middle street,

Is thy white blame­less­ness ac­coun­ted blame!”

But Vivien, deem­ing Mer­lin over­borne

By in­stance, re­com­menced, and let her tongue

Rage like a fire among the noblest names,

Pol­lut­ing, and im­put­ing her whole self,

De­fam­ing and de­fa­cing, till she left

Not even Lancelot brave, nor Ga­la­had clean.

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