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"Ah, let a man beware, when his wishes, fulfilled, rain down

upon him, and his happiness is unbounded"

"Thy red lips, like worms,

Travel over my cheek"

--MOTHERWELL

But as I crossed the space between the foot of the hill and the forest,

a vision of another kind delayedto

the ard flowed, like a strea sun, and

overfloith a ruddy splendour the open space where I was And riding

as it were down this stream towards me, came a horseman in what appeared

red armour From frontlet to tail, the horse likewise shone red in the

sunset

I felt as if I ht before; but as he drew

near, I could recall no feature of his countenance Ere he caend of Sir Percival in the rusty

armour, which I had left unfinished in the old book in the cottage: it

was of Sir Percival that he reminded me And no wonder; for when he came

close up to me, I saw that, from crest to heel, the whole surface of his