Merlin
by
Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale
Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1872-1945), "Merlin" from: Idylls of the King. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1911.



This picture illustrates the lines from Tennyson's "Vivien" idyll, later the "Merlin and Vivien" idyll:

And in the hollow oak he lay as dead,
And lost to life and use name and fame.