{"product_id":"2940148135968","title":"Accolon of Gaul (Illustrated)","description":"WHY, dreams from dreams in dreams remembered! naught\u003cbr\u003eSave this, alas! that once it seemed I thought\u003cbr\u003eI wandered dim with someone, but I knew\u003cbr\u003eNot who; most beautiful and good and true,\u003cbr\u003eYet sad through suffering; with curl-crowned brow,\u003cbr\u003eSoft eyes and voice; so white she haunts me now:—\u003cbr\u003eAnd when, and where?—At night in dreamland.\u003cbr\u003eShe\u003cbr\u003eLed me athwart a flower-showered lea\u003cbr\u003eWhere trammeled puckered pansy and the pea;\u003cbr\u003eSpread stains of pale-rod poppies rinced of rain,\u003cbr\u003eSo gorged with sun their hurt hearts ached with pain;\u003cbr\u003eHeaped honeysuckles; roses lavishing beams,\u003cbr\u003eWherein I knew were huddled little dreams\u003cbr\u003eWhich laughed coy, hidden merriment and there\u003cbr\u003eBlew quick gay kisses fragrancing the air.\u003cbr\u003e[pg 2]\u003cbr\u003eAnd where a river bubbled through the sward\u003cbr\u003eA mist lay sleepily; and it was hard\u003cbr\u003eTo see whence sprung it, to what seas it led,\u003cbr\u003eHow broadly spread and what it was it fled\u003cbr\u003eSo ceasless in its sighs, and bickering on\u003cbr\u003eInto romance or some bewildering dawn\u003cbr\u003eOf wisest legend from the storied wells\u003cbr\u003eOf lost Baranton, where old Merlin dwells,\u003cbr\u003eNodding a white poll and a grand, gray beard\u003cbr\u003eAs if some Lake Ladyé he, listening, heard,\u003cbr\u003eWho spake like water, danced like careful showers\u003cbr\u003eWith blown gold curls thro' drifts of wild-thorn flowers;\u003cbr\u003eLoose, lazy arms in graceful movement tossed,\u003cbr\u003eFloat flower-like down a woodland vista, lost\u003cbr\u003eIn some peculiar note that wrings a tear\u003cbr\u003eSlow down his withered cheek. And then steals near\u003cbr\u003eHer sweet, lascivious brow's white wonderment,\u003cbr\u003eAnd gray rude eyes, and hair which hath the scent\u003cbr\u003eOf the wildwood Brécéliand's perfumes\u003cbr\u003eIn Brittany; and in it one red bloom's\u003cbr\u003eBlood-drop thrust deep, and so \"Sweet Viviane!\"\u003cbr\u003eAll the glad leaves lisp like a young, soft rain\u003cbr\u003eFrom top to top, until a running surge\u003cbr\u003eThe dark, witch-haunted solitude will urge,\u003cbr\u003eThat shakes and sounds and stammers as from sleep\u003cbr\u003eSome giant were aroused; and with a leap\u003cbr\u003e[pg 3]\u003cbr\u003eA samite-gauzy creature, glossy white,\u003cbr\u003eShowers mocking kisses fast and, like a light\u003cbr\u003eBeat by a gust to flutter and then done,\u003cbr\u003eFrom Brécéliande and Merlin she is gone.\u003cbr\u003eBut still he sits there drowsing with his dreams;\u003cbr\u003eA wondrous cohort hath he; many as gleams\u003cbr\u003eThat stab the moted mazes of a beech;\u003cbr\u003eAnd each grave dream hath its own magic speech\u003cbr\u003eTo sting to tears his old eyes heavy—two\u003cbr\u003eHang, tangled brilliants, in his beard like dew:\u003cbr\u003eAnd still faint murmurs of courts brave and fair,\u003cbr\u003eAnd forms of Arthur and proud Guenevere,\u003cbr\u003eGrave Tristram and rare Isoud and stout Mark,\u003cbr\u003eBold Launcelot, chaste Galahad the dark\u003cbr\u003eOf his weak mind, once strong, glares up with, then,\u003cbr\u003e—The instant's fostered blossoms—die again.\u003cbr\u003eA roar of tournament, a rippling stir\u003cbr\u003eOf silken lists that ramble into her,\u003cbr\u003eThat white witch-mothered beauty, Viviane,\u003cbr\u003eThe vast Brécéliande and dreams again.\u003cbr\u003eThen Dagonet, King Arthur's fool, trips there,\u003cbr\u003eA waggish cunning; glittering on his hair\u003cbr\u003eA tinsel crown; and then will slightly sway\u003cbr\u003eThick leaves and part, and there Morgane the Fay\u003cbr\u003eWith haughty wicked eyes and lovely face\u003cbr\u003eStudies him steady for a little space.\u003cbr\u003e[pg 4]\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Lost Leaf Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47122280939760,"sku":"2940148135968","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940148135968_p0.jpg?v=1763697283","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940148135968","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}