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Show (-FAMOUS STORIES ; King Arthur's j Death Told in ! Tennyson Tale I By ELIZABETH C. JAMES 5 TN THE last days of King Arthur, his men were led in revolt J against him by the traitorous knight, Sir Modred. Warfare had continued many months and the i time had now come for the last struggle. Among those faithful to the king was the knight. Sir Bedi-. Bedi-. vere, now constant companion to I the lonely and aged king, j Overlooking the camps which j were arrayed for battle, the king thought sorrowfully of his knights I whom he was now fighting. His !! heart was heavy as the battle began, be-gan, relates Lord Tennyson in his story, "The Death of King Arthur." On every side there was strife to the death until the field was strewn . with men. At the point of Excali-bur, Excali-bur, King Arthur's famous sword, i Sir Modred met his end. But, alas, King Arthur was sorely wounded. Carefully Sir Bedivere carried his king off the field. But King Arthur knew that now he was to die. Calling his loyal knights to him, he requested Sir Bedi- i vere to carry Excal- hL 4 ibur down to the Elizabeth lake front and throw James it into the water. The knight thought this a strange request, but he lifted the treasured sword and went his way to the lake. Standing beside the water. Sir Bedivere thought of the needless waste of so many jewels and of so much beauty and he hid Excalibur in a tree. When Sir Bedivere stood again before him, King Arthur asked what he had seen when the threw the sword into the water. Sir Bedivere Bedi-vere answered, "The rippling of the' waves." "Betrayer!" cried the king. "Do as I bid you!" Standing again beside the water the knight thought: the king is ill and does not know what he says, so I will hide the sword. Accordingly, "BEAUTIFUL" LIFE Alfred, Lord Tennyson, lived a life as beautiful and unreal in its romanticism as that of any hero I in his Kins Arthur stories. J The drowning of Arthur Hal-lam, Hal-lam, Tennyson's colleee frionii who understood and encouraged J the sensitive poet, caused Tenny-I Tenny-I son to suffer a nervous collapse and to live ten years in retire- ment. At the end of that time he ! I presented for publication "In I Memoriam," an elegy to Arthur Hallam, a poem said to have s brought more comfort to sorrow-l sorrow-l ing people than any other poem. l Tennyson was not wealthv, and 8 he and his sweetheart wanted to I CaVe lhe Patn f Ws life open , for writing instead of trving to 5 earn a less precarious livelihood j so they waited many years be-l be-l fore marriage was possible : Speaking of his marrying Emily Sellwood he said, "On the day I married her, the peace of clod entered into my soul." At the death of Wordsworth, Tennyson was made Toet Laureate Laure-ate of England, having long Cn-Wed Cn-Wed the friendship 0f Queen ictona. After that he was so hesu-ged by sightseers, that he i ! nVu r,C.Cd ' move t0 Isle I of Wisht, which place is now I ,famous for having born his ! home. Tennyson died in 1S92, at i l the age of eighty-three. i; 1 he once more placed it safely awav. gave the same answer as before, The . r.pplmg of the vravcs j cried iRfrCat I10""' King Arthllr cauVtPPthrel 1086 from the ke. threp f SWOrd brandished it dir me T S and drcw Enlibur un' StlsrI'Vl"-"- I S 1 r0q"0St of his kniKllt. tl,,t I reach the shores of the lake Old Order Changeth. ki" -tood beside the t-ce;L"f0nTnroJin thodis- conic u in nnd no;,ror Mack drZ ielh rlc,h,,css of ,he Three qiS " ?l"d ba s-on s-on stood on tlio b? "l ,anu,,,,a- his kin? , , Bod,vi're sujumrlod ot e que' th ftrotclu-d r.. Slowly lo'l ",0 bi-K-A-lln,r ml.v, , n,t i,,onQ s Kin w.at s,1;u; i 1 tio.u.i ncw-i.ntv r .' K,V1,,K Plnco to :oro-orKK Arthur. lUl"i Ti'.hie n'W 0Vl,f tl'o W,,"l'on,..WNUSel.vli..- |
