The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions
fragrant the breeze that blew across the smooth and grassy plain. For in those days the world was young and gay (as it is nowadays with little children who are
fragrant the breeze that blew across the smooth and grassy plain.
For in those days the world was young and gay (as it is nowadays with little children who are abroad when the sun shines bright and things are a-growing) and the people who dwelt therein had not yet grown aweary of its freshness of delight. Wherefore that fair Queen and her court took great pleasure in all the merry world that lay spread about them, as they rode two by two, each knight with his lady, gathering the blossoms of the May, chattering the while like merry birds and now and then bursting into song because of the pure pleasure of living.
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