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Vivien Encloses Merlin in the Tree

Vivien Encloses Merlin in the Tree
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Vivien Encloses Merlin in the Tree

from: Vivien -  1867

This picture illustrates the lines from Tennyson's "Vivien" idyll, later renamed "Merlin and Vivien":

For Merlin, overtalked and overworn,
Had yielded, told her all the charm, and slept.