"The closest kin to state are those to dread:

No honor such to crush: envenoming

All those kind tongues of blood that try to sing

Petition to the soul, while conscience quakes

Huddled, but stern to hearts whose cold pride takes."

And well she knew that Arthur: mightier

Than Accolon, without Excalibur

Were as a stingless hornet in the joust

With all his foreign weapons. So her trust

Smiled certain of conclusion; eloquent