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There he layeth down to slumber, Having slain and ta'en his fill; There he roameth, there be croucheth, As it suits his lordly will. We camped but a few yards from just such a place as the poet describes.
So soon as he seeth Messire Gawain, he croucheth to the ground, and Messire Gawain passeth the entrance without gainsay and cometh to the castle, and alighteth afoot, and setteth his shield and his spear against the wall of the hall, and mounteth up a flight of marble steps and cometh into a hall right fair and rich, and here and there in divers places was it painted with golden images.
Then stood the blind man with head out-thrust and awful arm upraised, before which Black Roger shrank and shrank to cower in the deeper shadow. Of a sudden the blind man turned and coming beside Beltane, grasped him by the mantle. "Lord," he questioned, "who is he that trembleth before the maimed and blind? who is he that croucheth yonder?"
Fear hath rendered truth discreet, And Honor croucheth at his feet. Is this his work? ah no! 'tis thine! This thou alone hast done. For him thy banner waved, for him Thy sword the battle won Allgemeine Zeitung, No. 113.
Passion for power: the earthquake which breaketh and upbreaketh all that is rotten and hollow; the rolling, rumbling, punitive demolisher of whited sepulchres; the flashing interrogative-sign beside premature answers. Passion for power: before whose glance man creepeth and croucheth and drudgeth, and becometh lower than the serpent and the swine: until at last great contempt crieth out of him ,
He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones. He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it. Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble. Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.
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