...great sea, In silver-shining armour starry-clear ; And o'er his head the holy vessel hung . . . . . . and straight beyond the star I saw the spiritual city...And gateways in a glory like one pearl — No larger though the goal of all the saints — Strike from the sea." The Holy Grail. SEVEN years had gone by,...

...sunny slopes of the sleeping hills, but the very home and goal of all ; — The spiritual city with all her spires And gateways, in a glory like one pearl, No larger, though the goal of all the saints. THE LOST IPHIGENIA.1 BY AGNES AND EGERTON CASTLE CHAPTER XIII. UP...

...are pre-eminently poet's gems. From the time of Job to JT Tennyson's last poem, where he describes the spiritual city and •" all her spires and gateways in a glory like one pearl," these fair products of the deep have been used as emblem, metaphor, or simile. Amongst the Greeks,...

...Percivale is the narrator ; he tells how, after crossing a hill covered with clouds and storm, he finds on the other side ' a great black swamp, and of an...all the saints — Strike from the sea ; and from the star there shot A rose-red sparkle to the city, and there Dwelt, and I knew it was the Holy Grail,...

...Percivale is the narrator ; he tells how, after crossing a hill covered with clouds and storm, he finds on the other side ' a great black swamp, and of an...all the saints — Strike from the sea ; and from the star there shot A rose-red sparkle to the city, and there Dwelt, and I knew it was the Holy Grail,...

...the holy vessel hung Redder than any rose, a joy to me, For now I knew the veil had been withdrawn. Then in a moment when they blazed again Opening, I...goal of all the saints, Strike from the sea; and from the star there shot A rose-red sparkle to the city, and there Dwelt, and I knew it was the Holy Grail,...

...the holy vessel hung Redder than any rose, a joy to me, For now I knew the veil had been withdrawn. Then in a moment when they blazed again Opening, I...of all the saints— Strike from the sea ; and from the star there shot A rose-red sparkle to the city, and there Dwelt, and I knew it was the Holy Grail,...

...moment wben they blazed again Opening, I saw the host of little stars Down on the waste, and straighi beyond the star I saw the spiritual city and all her...of all the saints, Strike from the sea ; and from the star there shot A rose-red sparkle to the city, and there Dwelt, and I knew it was the Holy Grail,...

...the holy vessel hung Redder than any rose, a joy to me, For now I knew the veil had been withdrawn. Then in a moment when they blazed again Opening, I...straight beyond the star I saw the spiritual city and ail her spires And gateways in a glory like one pearl, No larger, tho' the goal of all the saints,...

...when they blazed again Opening, I saw the host of little stars Down on the waste, and straight oeyoud the star I saw the spiritual city and all her spires...glory like one pearl, No larger, tho* the goal of alt the saints, Strike from the sea ; and from the star there shot A rose-red sparkle to the city,...