And 'O my brother, Percivale,' she said, And then the music faded, and the Grail Passed, and the beam decay'd, and from the walls The rosy quiverings died into the night. So now the Holy Thing is here again And tell thy brother knights to fast and pray, That so perchance the vision may be seen By thee and those, and all the world be heal'd.' "Then leaving the pale nun, I spake of this To all men; and myself fasted and pray'd Always, and many among us many a week Fasted and pray'd even to the uttermost, Expectant of the wonder that would be. "And one there was among us, ever moved Among us in white armor, Galahad. 'God make thee good as thou art beautiful,' Said Arthur, when he dubb'd him knight; and none, In so young youth, was ever made a knight Till Galahad; and this Galahad, when he heard My sister's vision, fill'd me with amaze; His eyes became so like her own, they seem'd Hers, and himself her brother more than I. "Sister or brother none had he; but some Call'd him a son of Lancelot, and some said "But she, the wan, sweet maiden shore away Clean from her forehead all that wealth of hair Which made a silken mat-work for her feet; And out of this she plaited broad and long A strong sword-belt, and wove with silver thread And crimson in the belt a strange device, A crimson grail within a silver beam; And saw the bright boy-knight, and bound it on him Saying, 'My knight, my love, my knight of heaven. O thou, my love, whose love is one with mine, I, maiden, round thee, maiden, bind my belt. Go forth, for thou shalt see what I have seen, And break thro' all, till one will crown thee king Far in the spiritual city': and as she spake She sent the deathless passion in her eyes Thro' him, and made him hers, and laid her mind On him, and he believed in her belief. "Then came a year of miracle: O brother, In our great hall there stood a vacant chair, "Then on a summer night it came to pass, While the great banquet lay along the hall, That Galahad would sit down in Merlin's chair. "And all at once, as there we sat, we heard A cracking and a riving of the roofs, "I sware a vow before them all, that I Because I had not seen the Grail, would ride A twelvemonth and a day in quest of it, |