THE VISION OF SIR LAUNFAL

BY

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

WITH DESIGNS BY E. H. GARRETT

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY

The Riverside Press, Cambridge
MDCCCXCI

Copyright 1848, 1857, 1866, 1868, 1869, 1876, and 1890
By James Russell Lowell,
Copyright 1890,
By Houghton, Mifflin & Co.

All Rights Reserved.

The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass, USA
Electrotyped and printed by H. O. Houghton & Company.

Contents

Prelude to Part First

Part First

Prelude to Part Second

Part Second

Note

List of Illustrations

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
     (from a crayon by William Page, in 1842, owned by Mrs. Charles F. Briggs, Brooklyn, N.Y.)

And what is so rare as a day in June?

Now is the high-tide of the year

My golden spurs now bring to me
And bring to me my richest mail

As Sir Launfal made mom through the darksome gate,
He was 'ware of a leper

Down swept the chill wind from the mountain peak

An old bent man, worn out and frail

So he mused, as he sat, of a sunnier clime

The castle gate stands open now,
And the wanderer is welcome to the hall.

The Photogravures were executed by A. W. Elson & Co., Boston.