old's version
of the story of Tristram and Iseult with the version given in the
introductory note to the poem.

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THE CHURCH OF BROU

I. THE CASTLE

The church of Brou is actually located in a treeless Burgundian plain,
and not in the mountains, as stated by the poet.

=1. Savoy=. A mountainous district in eastern France; formerly one of
the divisions of the Sardinian States.

=3. mountain-chalets=. Properly, herdsmen's huts in the mountains of
Switzerland.

=17. prickers=. Men sent into the thickets to start the game.

=35. dais=. Here, a canopy or covering.

=69. erst=. See note, l. 42, _The Scholar-Gipsy_. ( Formerly.
(Obsolete except in poetry.))

=71. chancel=. The part of a church in which the altar is placed.

=72. nave=. See note, ll. 70-76, _Epilogue to Lessing's Laocooen_.

=77. palmers=. Wandering religious votaries, especially those who bore
branches of palm as a token that they had visited the Holy Land and
its sacred places.

=109. fretwork=. Representing open woodwork.

II. THE CHURCH

=17. matin-chime=. Bells for morning worship.

=21. Chambery=. Capital of the department of Savoy Proper, on the
Leysse.

=22. Dight=. See l. 277, _Sohrab and Rustum_. (Adorned, dressed.)

=37. chisell'd broideries=. The carved draperies of the tombs.

III. THE TOMB

=6. transept=. The transversal part of a church edifice, which crosses
at right angles between the nave and the choir (the upper portion),
thus giving to the building the form of a cross.

=39. foliaged marble forest=. Note the epithet.
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=45. leads=. That is, the leaden roof. See l. 1, Part II. (Upon the
glistening leaden roof).

REQUIESCAT

This poem, one of Arnold's best-known shorter lyrics, combines with
perfect taste, simplicity and elegance, with the truest pathos. It has
been said there is not a false note in it.

=13. cabin'd=. Used in the sense of being cramped for space.

=16. vasty=. Spacious, boundless.

What is the significance of strewing on the roses? Why "never a spray
of yew"? (See note, l.140, _The Scholar-Gipsy.)_ What seems to be the
author's attitude toward death? (Read his poem, _A Wish_.) Discuss the
poem as to its lyrical qualities.

CONSOLATION

=14. Holy Lassa= (that is, Land of the Divine Intelligence), the
capital city of