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Elaine with Lancelot's Shield

Elaine with Lancelot's Shield
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Elaine with Lancelot's Shield

from: Idylls of the King (Facing p. 110) -  1911

This picture illustrates the lines from Tennyson's "Elaine" idyll, later the "Lancelot and Elaine" idyll:

Then to her tower she climb'd, and took the shield,
There kept it, and so lived in fantasy,