30/09/2025
The King!
Here is an heir for Uther!
'And the fringe
Of that great breaker, sweeping up the strand,
Lash'd at the wizard as he spake the word,
And all at once all round him rose in fire,
So that the child and he were clothed in fire.
And presently thereafter follow'd calm.
Free sky and stars: 'And this same child,' he said,
'Is he who reign; nor could I part in peace
Till this were told.' And saying this the seer
Went thro' the strait and dreadful pass of death.
Not ever to be question'd any more
Save on the further side; but when I met
Merlin, and ask'd him if these things were truth
The shining dragon and the naked child
Descending in the glory of the seas
He laugh'd as is his wont, and answer'd me
In riddling triplets of old time, and said:
"'Rain, rain, and sun! a rainbow in the sky!
A young man will be wiser by and by;
An old man's wit may wander ere he die.
Rain, rain, and sun ! a rainbow on the lea!
And truth is this to me, and that to thee;
And truth or clothed or naked let it be.
Rain, sun, and rain! and the free blossom blows
Sun, rain, and sun! and where is he who knows?
From the great deep to the great deep he goes.'"
~Alfred Tennyson
