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Updated: June 15, 2025
She touched the chords of her lute in sweet and wild melody, and sung the following ode: EVENING Evening veil'd in dewy shades, Slowly sinks upon the main; See th'empurpled glory fades, Beneath her sober, chasten'd reign. Around her car the pensive Hours, In sweet illapses meet the sight, Crown'd their brows with closing flow'rs Rich with chrystal dews of night.
'It has always been a dream, and it is strange now to feel so downhearted about it, said her aunt, smiling. 'Uncle Frank is sure to be better there, said Constance. 'Only think of the snowy mountains Mont Blanc is the monarch of mountains; They crown'd him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow.
That head that once was crown'd with thorns, Shall now with glory shine; That heart that broken was with scorns, Shall flow with life divine; 40. That man that here met with disgrace, We there shall see so bright; That angels can't behold his face For its exceeding light. 41. What gladness will possess our heart When we shall see these things!
Yet he stumbled on and on, and by slow and difficult degrees found his way down to the foot of the high rocks which formed a pinnacled wall between him and the sea, the rocks he had so often climbed with Gloria, and of which she had sung in such matchless tones of triumph and tenderness. Here, by the sea. My King crown'd me!
But if we go to Scotland next year, we shall doubtless believe just as firmly that Arthur rests there, in spite of the record at Glastonbury, in spite even of Tennyson: "... the island valley of Avilon; Where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow, Nor ever wind blows loudly; but it lies Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard-lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound."
So first and last with equal honour crown'd, In solemn feasts the race-torch circles round. And these my heralds! this my SIGN OF PEACE! Lo! while we breathe, the victor lords of Greece, Stalk, in stern tumult, through the halls of Troy!"
Stern he rejoins: "Thou beauteous tyrant! say, Though crown'd with charms, devoted to betray, When these proud walls, in dust and ruins laid, Yield no defence, and thou a captive maid, Will not repentance through thy bosom dart, And sorrow soften that disdainful heart?"
And from some hidden corner, clear and full and sweet, her voice rang out above the peaceful plashing of the waves: "My King crown'd me! And I and he Are one till the world shall cease to be!"
To the simple and moving story Tennyson adds, by way of ornament, the diamonds, the prize of the tourney, and the manner of their finding: "For Arthur, long before they crown'd him King, Roving the trackless realms of Lyonnesse, Had found a glen, gray boulder and black tarn.
But Pope, manifestly unable to extract any sense from the passage, translates thus: "At Jove's assent the deities around In solemn slate the consistory crown'd;" where at once the whole picturesque solemnity of the celestial ritual melts into the vaguest generalities.
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