No More Learning

No time hath she to sport and play:
A charmed web she weaves alway.
A curse is on her, if she stay
Her weaving, either night or day]


[Footnote 6: 1833.

Therefore
. . .
Therefore
. . .
The Lady of Shalott. ]


[Footnote 7: 1833.

She lives with little joy or fear
Over the water running near,
The sheep bell tinkles in her ear,
Before her hangs a mirror clear,
Reflecting towered Camelot.
And, as the mazy web she whirls,
She sees the surly village-churls. ]


[Footnote 8: 1833. Came from Camelot. ]

[Footnote 9: In these lines are to be found, says the present Lord
Tennyson, the key to the mystic symbolism of the poem.
But it is not
easy to see how death could be an advantageous exchange for
fancy-haunted solitude. The allegory is clearer in lines 114-115, for
love will so break up mere phantasy. ]

[Footnote 10: 1833. Hung in the golden galaxy. ]

[Footnote 11: 1833. From. ]

[Footnote 12: 1833. From Camelot. ]

[Footnote 13: 1833. Green Shalott. ]

[Footnote 14: 1833. From Camelot. ]

[Footnote 15: 1833. "Tirra lirra, tirra lirra. "]

[Footnote 16: 1833. Water flower.