The poetical works of Robert Stephen Hawker Edited from the original manuscripts and annotated copies together with a prefatory notice and bibliography by Alfred Wallis |
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TO ALFRED TENNYSON, LAUREATE, D.C.L.
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TO ALFRED TENNYSON, LAUREATE, D.C.L.
ON HIS “IDYLLS OF THE KING.”
They told me in their shadowy phrase,
Caught from a tale gone by,
That Arthur, King of Cornish praise,
Died not, and would not die!
Caught from a tale gone by,
That Arthur, King of Cornish praise,
Died not, and would not die!
Dreams had they, that in fairy bowers,
Their living warrior lies;
Or wears a garland of the flowers
That grow in Paradise!
Their living warrior lies;
Or wears a garland of the flowers
That grow in Paradise!
I read the Rune with deeper ken,
And thus the myth I trace:—
A bard should rise, mid future men,
The mightiest of his race.
And thus the myth I trace:—
A bard should rise, mid future men,
The mightiest of his race.
He would great Arthur's deeds rehearse,
On grey Dundagel's shore;
And so, the King, in laurelled verse,
Shall live, and die no more!
On grey Dundagel's shore;
And so, the King, in laurelled verse,
Shall live, and die no more!
August, 1859.
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