Chapter 37 No.37

The years rolled on in grand routine

Of useful toil and chastening care,

Till Philip, grown to heights, serene

Of conscious power, and ripe with prayer,

Took on the strong and stately mien

Of one on whom had been conferred

The doing of a knightly deed;

And waited till it bade him gird

The harness on him and his steed,

For