. The book of ballads . hy charger is thy gloriousbody thrown;>, Fetters have they bound upon thee—ironI fetters fast and sure; Don Feni;mJ() (Jomersalez, thou art captiveto the Moor! n ^^==^ THE BOOK OF BALLADS. Long within a stable dungeon pined that In-ave and noble knight,For the Saracenic warriors well they knew and feared his might;Long he lay and long he langmshed on liis dripping bed of stone,Till the cankered iron fetters ate then way mto his bone. On the twentieth day of August—t was the feast of false Mahound—Came the Moorish population from the neighbouring cities round;There to
. The book of ballads . hy charger is thy gloriousbody thrown;>, Fetters have they bound upon thee—ironI fetters fast and sure; Don Feni;mJ() (Jomersalez, thou art captiveto the Moor! n ^^==^ THE BOOK OF BALLADS. Long within a stable dungeon pined that In-ave and noble knight,For the Saracenic warriors well they knew and feared his might;Long he lay and long he langmshed on liis dripping bed of stone,Till the cankered iron fetters ate then way mto his bone. On the twentieth day of August—t was the feast of false Mahound—Came the Moorish population from the neighbouring cities round;There to hold their foul carousal, there to dance, and there to to pay their yearly homage to Al-Widdicomb the King! f First they wheeled then- supple coursers, wheeled them at their ^ | utmost speed,Then they galloped by in squadions, tossmg of the hght jereed;Then around the circus racing, faster than the swallow flies,Did they spuni the yellow saw-dust in the rapt spectators eves. K Tin: iKtoK or ? I. Proudly did the Moorish monarch cvf-rv jpasMiiL warrior greet,As he sate enthroned above them, with tin- laiiijis l)eneat]i his ^ Tell me, thou black-he{ird(.d Cadi! are there any in the land,n\ That against my janisi>arie8 dare one hour in combat stand ? Then tlie l)earded Cadi answered—Be not wrotli. my lord, the King-,If thy faitliful slave shall venture to observe one httle thing*; ^S^ir^
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