Narrative poems on the Female Character in the various relations of life. By Mary Russell Mitford ... Vol. I |
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XXXI.
Sounded the echoing bugle strain,Shrilly and loud, o'er all the plain.
Then rode th' appellant forth: as gay
As if the dim and long array
Were but for some bright tourney's play.
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Reflected every sunbeam sheen,
With emerald lustre, glancing bright,
Like meadows in the morning-light.
The plumage of his crested helm
Was glittering, as the sun-crown'd elm,
From whose young leaves the rain-drops fly,
And nod and sparkle as they die.
Upon his shield a column frown'd,
With dark luxuriant ivy bound;
“Off with the weed!” was blazon'd round.
He seem'd as for the fight he burn'd:
And when again awoke the strain,
Ev'n his Arabian courser spurn'd
The warrior's tightening rein.
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