Chapter 16 THE PASSING OF ARTHUR

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 fall'n in Lyonnesse about their Lord,

King Arthur. Then, because his wound was deep,

The bold Sir Bedivere uplifted him,

And bore him to a chapel nigh the field,

A broken chancel with a broken cross.

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