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of song, but also a knowledge of the past and future. Taliesin was asked to describe the creation of man, he said:

"The Almighty made,

Down the Hebron vale,
With his plastic hands,
Adam's fair form.

"And five hundred years

The legends and

their truest history.

There he remained, and lay,
Void of any help,

Without a soul."'

folk-lore of a people are in some respects They represent not so much what has been as the desires and aspirations of the national heart. King Arthur and his knights are an ideal court. The principles of Christianity, that centuries after culminated into doctrine and dogma, were theirs in their undeveloped and chaotic form.

A sense of

justice underlies their every action. Their lives, although a strange medley of the ideal, the impossible and the real, in the end became the dream of the seer and the song of the poet. Song is the language of immortality. The pen of history may become rusty and refuse to write, but harpstrings are not easily broken.

"Yet the same harp that Taliesin strung

Delights the sons whose sires the chords delighted;

Still the old music of the mountain tongue

Tells of a race not conquered but united;

That, losing nought, wins all the Saxon won,

And shares the realm where never sets the sun."-BULWER.

Thus Taliesin sang the songs of every land, and then returned to his own fair country, and predicted the supremacy of the Anglo-Saxon race:

"Britains then shall have

Their lands and their crown,
And the stranger swarms
Shall disappear."

This has been literally fulfilled. The alien races long since retreated before the Anglo-Saxon, and Britain not only has her own, but many other lands. King Arthur has become a legend, and his knightly court lingers as a historic shadow, but the laws and manners of those days are still in force.

Courtesy to woman, the abhorrence of a lie, and a readiness to defend the weak, are still characteristic of the English race. In this way the Age of Chivalry has perpetuated itself.

"Such times have been not since the light that lead

The holy Elders with the gift of myrrh ;
But now the whole Round Table is dissolved,
Which was an image of the mighty world."

-THE PASSING OF ARTHUR.

INDEX TO POETS

QUOTED IN THIS VOLUME.

Ariosto,

Arnold, Matthew,

Boiardo,

Browning, Mrs. E. B.,

Brwynog,

Bulwer,

Cameron,

Chaucer,

Clerk,.

Davidson,

De Brunne,

Drayton,

Dryden,

Ferguson, Sir Samuel,

Gray,

Hen,

Kyveiliog,

Lowell,

McGee, Thomas D'Arcy,

Miller, Joaquin,

Milton,

Mitchell, S. Weir,

Moore,.

Old Ballad,

Old Song,

Ossian,

Ossian, Old Version,

Percy,.

Pindar,

Sackville,

Schiller,

Scott,

Shackleton,

Shakespeare,

Spenser,

Swinburne,

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INDEX.

Aber Alaw, 282.

ABER CLEDDYF, 312.

ENEAS, 14.

ACHELOUS, 15.

AGANDECCA, death of, 343.

AGRAVAIN, 63; his treason, 174.

AIDEEN, 384.

ALBANACT, 16.

ALBANIA, 17.

Badon Mount, 40.

BAGDEMAGUS, King, 77, 152, 153.
BAN, King, 39, 42. 72.

BEAUVAIS, ROBERT DE, thirteenth

century poet, 9.

BEDIVERE, 187.

BEDRAWD, 254.

BEDVER, 49, 52, 54.

BEDWYR, 254.

ALBION, son of Neptune, 13; Island BELINDA, 106.

of, 16.

ALEMANUS, 14.

ALEXANDER THE GREAT, 11.

ALPIN, son of, 375.

ALTHAN, 369.

ALYDUKE, 80.

AMBROSIUS, 35.

AMORICA, 24.

ANARAWD, 277.

ANDRET, 113.

ANLAWD, 295.

ARDAN, 327.

ARGIUS, King of Ireland, 110, 111.

ARIES, 45.

ARMOR, 6.

BELINUS, 21.

BENDIGEID VRAN, 275, 280, 284.

BERRATHON, 375.

BLAANOR, 111.

BLADUD, 18.

BLAMOR, 198.

BLEOBERIS, 198.

BOHORT, King, 39, 42, 73, 93, 150; his

quest, 163; fights with Lionel, 165,
171, 174.

Boy and the Mantle, 69.

BRADEMAGUS, 89, 152.

BRAGELA, 334.

BRANDELES, 80.

BRANWEN, 275-283.

ARTHGALLO, brother to Elidnoe, 21, BRASSOLIS, 330.

22.

ARTHO, son of, 371.

ARTHUR, 8, 24, 26; historical evi-
dences of, 33; chosen King, 38;
sends embassy to Brittany, 39;
wins victory of Mount Badon, 40;
gives battle to Laodegan, 41; slays
a giant, 42; marries Guinevere, 44;
his victory over Scots and Picts, 48;
vanquishes Flollo, 49; his corona-
tion, 50; refuses tribute to Rome,
52; slays giant of St. Michael's
Mount, 53; gets sword from Lady
of the Lake, 55; meets the Grim
Baron, 64, 90, 91, 92, 121; welcomes
Sir Tristram, 124, 127, 142, 144, 146,
149, 150; joy at return of knights,
173; gives battle to Sir Launcelot,
177; makes peace for one year, 179;
returns to England, 183; his last
battle, 185; throws his sword into
the sea, 188; his death, 190.
ASCANIUS, 14.

ATHA, 361.
AUWYN, 292.

AVAON, 215.

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