.Early one morning, a soldier asks his comrades to leave him at Locksley Hall, an estate on an eminence near the sea. In his youth, he spent many a night at the hall gazing out a window at stars, in particular those in the constellation Orion and in the Pleiadescluster. During the day, he often wandered the beach while thinking of the promises of the future. .......“In...

Comrades, leave me here a little, while as yet 't is early morn: Leave me here, and when you want me, sound upon the bugle-horn. 'T is the place, and all around it, as of old, the curlews call, Dreary gleams about the moorland flying over Locksley Hall; Locksley Hall, that in the distance overlooks the sandy tracts, And the hollow ocean-ridges roaring into cataracts. Many...

So all day long the noise of battle roll'd  Among the mountains by the winter sea;  Until King Arthur's table, man by man,  Had fallen in Lyonnesse about their Lord,  King Arthur: then, because his wound was deep,  The bold Sir Bedivere uplifted him,  Sir Bedivere, the last of all his knights,  And bore him to a chapel nigh the field,  A...