. The book of ballads . *i^ ^Vf? .><7a fXffiy^—rr—mr U THE BOOK OF JJALLADS. ^ .\tV»M wore that chieftain armour ; in a knot himself he ties,^ A\ ith his irrizzly head appearing in the centre of hia thighs. l|. Till the petrified spectator asks in undiscruised alann—^ A\here may be the warriors body,—which is lej,, and which is JJI arm .Sound the charge! the coursers started; with a yell and furious vault, —m-i Hitrh in air the Moorish champion cut a wondrous somer- JPsault; %^sssms^ =^ THE BOOK OF BALLADS. 15 Oer the head of Don Fernando like a tennis-bail he sprung-,Caught him tightly
. The book of ballads . *i^ ^Vf? .><7a fXffiy^—rr—mr U THE BOOK OF JJALLADS. ^ .\tV»M wore that chieftain armour ; in a knot himself he ties,^ A\ ith his irrizzly head appearing in the centre of hia thighs. l|. Till the petrified spectator asks in undiscruised alann—^ A\here may be the warriors body,—which is lej,, and which is JJI arm .Sound the charge! the coursers started; with a yell and furious vault, —m-i Hitrh in air the Moorish champion cut a wondrous somer- JPsault; %^sssms^ =^ THE BOOK OF BALLADS. 15 Oer the head of Don Fernando like a tennis-bail he sprung-,Caught him tightly by the girdle, and behind the crupper hung-. Then his dagger Don Fernando plucked from out its jewelled sheath,And he struck the Moor so fiercely, as he grappled him beneath,That the good Damascus weapon sunk within the folds of fat,And, as dead as JuUus Csesar, dropped the Gordian Acrobat. Meanwhile fast the sun was sinking,—it had sunk beneath the Fernando Gomersalez smote the latter of the three;And Al-Widdicomb the monarch, pointed with a bitter the deeply-darkening canvas—blacker grew it all the while. Thou hast slain my warriors, Spaniard! but thou hast not kept thy time ;Only
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