Arabia, or the sources of the Nile,—
It still is there, nor can it be eluded
Save in the airless emptiness of death.
And fortressed with resolve, she speaks of war,
of rending the kingdom, of violating friendships, of desecrating the family bond, to all of which Lancelot opposes his own desires:
And I—
I, too, defend it when it is a family,
As I would kneel before the sacred Host
When through the still aisles sounds the sacring bell;
But if a jester strutted through the forms