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Prologue

Sir Walter Vivian holds a party on his great lawns one summer day. The speaker arrived from a college to visit his son, another Walter.

Alfred lord tennyson mini biography princess

Sir Walter shows the speaker the house with all of its art and objects gathered from various times and places. The family armor hangs from the wall. Walter explains the background of some of the famous armor and gives the speaker the family chronicle which was a “hoard of tales that dealt with knights / Half-legend, half-historic.” The chronicle mentions one noble woman who valiantly resisted an evil king and trampled some of his men below her horse’s hooves.

Walter interrupts the speaker from his reading and invites him to come back outside to the abbey where Aunt Elizabeth and Sister Lilia were waiting.

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The speaker acquiesces but keeps his finger in the book. They walk down the sloping pasture past sparkling fountains and reveling children and happy dancers, and they arrive at the ruins. They were “High-arched and ivy-claspt, / Of fi