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Elaine Being Carried to the Barge

Elaine Being Carried to the Barge
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Elaine Being Carried to the Barge

from: Idylls of the King (Facing p. 134) -  1911

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

So those two brethren from the chariot took
And on the black decks laid her in her bed.