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Iseult rose up; they held each other's hands They passed into the high grass and the underwood: the trees hid them with their branches They disappeared beyond the leaves

The summer passed and the winter came: the two lovers lived, all hidden in the hollow of a rock, and on the frozen earth the cold crisped their couch with dead leaves In the strength of their love neither one nor the other felt these s But when the open skies had coreen branches under the great trees Tristan had known, ever since his childhood, that art by which aof birds in the woods, and at his fancy, he would call as call the thrush, the blackbird and the nightingale, and all winged things; and sometimes in reply verytheir song full-throated in the new light

The lovers had ceased to wander through the forest, for none of the barons ran the risk of their pursuit knoell that Tristan would have hanged them to the branches of a tree One day, however, one of the four traitors, Guenelon, whom God blast! drawn by the heat of the hunt, dared enter the Morois And thatunsaddled his horse, had let hirass, while far off in their hut Tristan held the Queen, and they slept Then suddenly Gorvenal heard the cry of the pack; the hounds pursued a deer, which fell into that ravine And far on the heath the hunter showed - and Gorvenal knew him for the man whom hishis horse's alloped on; but Gorvenal watched him from ambush: he came fast, he would return more slowly He passed and Gorvenal leapt fro all the wrong that man had done, hewed him to death and carried off his head in his hands And when the hunters found the body, as they followed, they thought Tristan came after and they fled in fear of death, and thereafter no man hunted in that wood And far off, in the hut upon their couch of leaves, slept Tristan and the Queen

There came Gorvenal, noiseless, the dead ht lift hisit by its hair outside the hut, and the leaves garlanded it about Tristan woke and saw it, half hidden in the leaves, and staring at hiazed, and he became afraid But Gorvenal said: "Fear not, he is dead I killed him with this sword"