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Updated: August 23, 2024
These and many others gathered at the court of King Angus of Ireland, so that all those meadows and fields coadjacent to the place of battle were gay as beds of flowers with the multitude of tents and pavilions of divers colors that were there emplanted. And on the day of the tournament there came great crowds of people into the lists, so that all that place was alive with movement.
Then, at the end of all, it was the ranch again, seen in a last brief glance before he had gone to bed; the fecundated earth, calm at last, nursing the emplanted germ of life, ruddy with the sunset, the horizons purple, the small clamour of the day lapsing into quiet, the great, still twilight, building itself, dome-like, toward the zenith.
Of the two alternatives, the risks of civilization seemed preferable. Civilization was an unknown quantity, whereas the jungle was familiar to himself and his ancestors, and the fear transmitted by his ancestors was firmly emplanted in his mind. Therefore he had no special desire to sojourn amongst the mighty forces of the forest, which he knew to be overwhelming.
The spear of Sir Tristram was emplanted by the point of the truncheon in the ground outside the pavilion, and thereunto his shield was hung so that those who passed that way might clearly behold what was the device thereon. And now shall be told how Sir Tristram became united in friendship with the brotherhood of good knights at King Arthur's court. Also how he had speech with King Arthur.
"It will come presently, the reign of mystical make-believe is past." "But surely it is mysticism and idealism which make ordinary things divine!" "Certainly when they are emplanted upon a true basis. I said 'make-believe' that is what kills all good things make-believe. Most of the present-day leaders are throwing dust in their followers' eyes or their own.
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