...courage. His conscience was clear, and he might have said, like the knight in the poem we all know : " My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pura" While every one else gazed in awestruck silence, as if turned to stone, William Keith tore open...

...wide — A light upon the shining sea — The Bridegroom with his bride ! SIR GALAHAD. MY good blade carves the casques of men, My tough lance thrusteth...shrilleth high, The hard brands shiver on the steel, The splinter'd spear-shafts crack and fly, The horse and rider reel : They reel, they roll in clanging...

...wide — A light upon the shining sea — The Bridegroom with his bride ! SIR GALAHAD. MY good blade carves the casques of men, My tough lance thrusteth...shrilleth high, The hard brands shiver on the steel, The splinter'd spear-shafts crack and fly, The horse and rider reel : They reel, they roll in clanging...

...rhyme and alternating iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter) matches Galahad's surety: My good blade carves the casques of men, My tough lance thrusteth...as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure. (1-4) The whole of The Idylls of the King is written in the measured dignity of blank verse, and this...

...title character of "Sir Galahad" (1842, but written in 1834). Tennyson's Galahad, who says of himself, "My strength is as the strength of ten, / Because my heart is pure," is moral perfection personified. He is also a character who, like the Arthur of the Itl\tl\ is beyond...

...disability. But Mrs. Bryan offers the example of Galahad and quotes from Tennyson's poem "Sir Galahad": "My strength is as the strength of ten, / Because my heart is pure." As in the vision of Sir Launfal, the Grail that Holmes' little Sir Galahad can achieve is not a material...

...for spoil and victims' [Nietzsche, Genealogy of Morals, essay 1, aphorism 11] His strength ... ten: 'My strength is as the strength of ten, / Because my heart is pure' [Tennyson, 'Sir Galahad,' 3-4]. Indited by his fellow-convict, Hess: Hitler dictated Mein Kampf to...

...drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew. 11483 'Sir Galahad' My strength is as the strength of ten, Because my heart is pure. 1 1484 'The Gardener's Daughter' More black than ashbuds in the front of March. 1 1485 'The Gardener's...

...than the notion that Galahad's nobility is in his virtue, a notion that echoes the well known lines, "My strength is as the strength of ten, / Because my heart is pure." But since the short story ends with the marriage of Galahad to Rebecca on Christmas Day, obviously...

...sick, unhappy people can do to anyone," Sister Agnes said, gently. "Remember, your church. Your God. 'My strength is as the strength of ten because my heart is pure.' And don't worry about this silly meeting for one second. We know how hard you work, and we all know...