The complete poetical works of Thomas Campbell Oxford edition: Edited, with notes by J. Logie Robertson |
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ADELGITHA
The ordeal's fatal trumpet sounded,
And sad pale Adelgitha came,
When forth a valiant champion bounded
And slew the slanderer of her fame.
And sad pale Adelgitha came,
When forth a valiant champion bounded
And slew the slanderer of her fame.
She wept, delivered from her danger;
But when he knelt to claim her glove—
‘Seek not,’ she cried, ‘oh! gallant stranger,
For hapless Adelgitha's love.
But when he knelt to claim her glove—
‘Seek not,’ she cried, ‘oh! gallant stranger,
For hapless Adelgitha's love.
‘For he is in a foreign far land
Whose arm should now have set me free;
And I must wear the willow garland
For him that's dead, or false to me.’
Whose arm should now have set me free;
And I must wear the willow garland
For him that's dead, or false to me.’
‘Nay! say not that his faith is tainted!’
He raised his vizor: at the sight
She fell into his arms and fainted;
It was indeed her own true knight!
He raised his vizor: at the sight
She fell into his arms and fainted;
It was indeed her own true knight!
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