"So flashed and fell the brand Excalibur: But ere he dipt the surface, rose an arm Clothed in white samite, mystic, wonderful, And caught him by the hilt, and brandished him Three times, and drew him under in the mere."
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Alfred Tennyson, Idylls of the King (1869) "The Passing of Arthur"
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