Men fled into the tumble of the tides

And the waves choked them falling; the salt spray

Stung them: but “Never saw I fire,” said he,

“Of such an indignation fill the King

Seeking for Mordred. At the last he spied him

Among the heaped dead, leaning on his sword,

And cried aloud and smote him; and that traitor,

Even as he gasped his bitter soul out, struck

On our anointed.”

Guenevere