BY ALFRED TENNYSON

"Flos Regum Arthurus."

JOSEPH OF EXETER

BIBLIOTHEQUE S. J.
Les Fontaines

60 - CHANTILLY

HENRY S. KING AND CO.

65, CORNHILL, AND 12, PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON

1874

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DEDICATION.

THESE to His Memory-since he held them dear, Perchance as finding there unconsciously

Some image of himself—I dedicate,

I dedicate, I consecrate with tears-

These Idylls.

And indeed He seems to me

Scarce other than my own ideal knight,
'Who reverenced his conscience as his king;
Whose glory was, redressing human wrong;
Who spake no slander, no, nor listen'd to it ;
Who loved one only and who clave to her—'
Her-over all whose realms to their last isle,
Commingled with the gloom of imminent war,