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JOAN OF ARC.
With friendly greeting, or if foes they came 50
With such array of battle as short space
Allowed: the Warrior sped across the plain,
And soon beheld the bannered lillies wave.
With such array of battle as short space
Allowed: the Warrior sped across the plain,
And soon beheld the bannered lillies wave.
Their Chief was Richemont: he, when as he heard
What rites employed the Virgin, straightway bade 55
His troops assist in burial: they, tho' grieved
At late arrival, and the expected day
Of conquest past, yet give their willing aid:
They dig the general grave, and thither bear
English or French alike commingled now! 60
And heap the mound of Death.
Amid the plain
There was a little eminence, of old
Piled o'er some honored Chieftain's narrow house.
His praise the song had ceas'd to celebrate,
And many an unknown age had the long grass 65
Waved o'er the nameless mound, tho' barren now
Beneath the frequent tread of multitudes.
What rites employed the Virgin, straightway bade 55
His troops assist in burial: they, tho' grieved
At late arrival, and the expected day
Of conquest past, yet give their willing aid:
They dig the general grave, and thither bear
English or French alike commingled now! 60
And heap the mound of Death.
Amid the plain
There was a little eminence, of old
Piled o'er some honored Chieftain's narrow house.
His praise the song had ceas'd to celebrate,
And many an unknown age had the long grass 65
Waved o'er the nameless mound, tho' barren now
Beneath the frequent tread of multitudes.
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