Page:The Universal Songster and Museum of Mirth.djvu/284

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?.N'T LM I?.N*TA L SONGS. T?e breeze that slgh'd am?l their blooms l?lay'd in the warrior's waving plumes. Lady, admu! 'tis summer now, And 5rightly summer roses blow; Bat oh! they'll often bloom and fad9 Before I sheathe again my blade. They oft shall fade, shall often bioomy ]?efore I turn my courser home; When again I breathe a lover's vow, They'll blossom in the drifted snow; Lady adieu! forever more, The spell's unbound that bound before Thy scorn has rous'd a soldier's pride, And glory now shall be his bride. THE KNIGHT OF THE GOLDEN CREST. T? banners wav'd on the castle walls, 'Mid the shouts of a trusty band, '?'?n a knight roturn'd to his princely halls, From the wars of the holy land. His lady had left her harp, and stood To gaza on the smiling west, When came a dark steed from the distant wood, With her knight of the goldca crest. The crimson scarf her true knight dizplay'd Which in earlier day she wove/ When he breath'd his vows in the twilight glade, And was blest with her maiden love. 8be welcom'd her lord with a?eents bland And the scarf to her lips she press'd, ,And thought of the time when she gave her To th.e knight of the golden cr?t,