HIGH NATURE AMOROUS OF THE GOOD,
BUT TOUCH'D WITH NO ASCETIC GLOOM;
And passions pure in snowy bloom
Through all the years of April blood."

The first two verses of this stanza also characterize the King Arthur
of the `Idylls of the King'. *1* In the next stanza we have
the poet's institutional Englishness: --

"A love of freedom rarely felt,
Of freedom in her regal seat
Of England; not the school-boy heat,
The blind hysterics of the Celt;

And MANHOOD FUSED WITH FEMALE GRACE *2*
In such a sort, the child would twine
A trustful hand, unask'd, in thine,
And find his comfort in thy face;

All these have been, and thee mine eyes
Have look'd on; if they look'd in vain,
My shame is greater who remain,
Nor let thy wisdom make me wise."

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*1* See `The Holy Grail', the concluding thirty-two verses, beginning:
"And spake I not too truly, O my Knights", and ending "ye have seen
that ye have seen".
*2* The idea of `The Princess'.
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