THE SIEGE OF VALENCIA.
SCENE I.
Room in a Palace of Valencia.
Ximena singing to a Lute.
BALLAD.
At the pouring of the wine;
Men bear not from the Hall of Song,
A mien so dark as thine!
—There's blood upon thy shield,
There's dust upon thy plume,
—Thou hast brought, from some disastrous field,
That brow of wrath and gloom!"
"And is there blood upon my shield?
—Maiden! it well may be!
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