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meet in bliss. Fourteen suns their course had rolled, 23 When firmly thus he spake; Hear now my last request: behold This ring, it is of purest gold, Love, keep it for my sake! When summers seven have robed each tree, 24 And clothed the vales with green, If I come not back, then thou art free, To wed or not, and to think of me, As I had never been! Nay, answer not,--what wouldst thou say! Come, let my harp be brought; For the last time, I fain would play, Ere yet we part, our favourite lay, And cheat severer thought: THE AIR. Oh, cast every care to the wind, And dry, best beloved, the tear! Secure, that thou ever shalt find, The friend of thy bosom sincere. Still friendship shall live in the breast of the brave, And we'll love, the long day, where the forest-trees wave. I have felt each emotion of bliss, That affection the fondest can prove, Have received on my lip the first kiss Of thy holy and innocent love; But perish each hope of delight, Like the flashes of night on the sea, If ever, though far from thy sight, My soul is forgetful of thee! Still the memory shall live in the breast of the brave, How we loved, the long day, where the forest-trees wave. Now bring my boy; may God above 26 Shower blessings on his head! May he requite his mother's love, And to her age a comfort prove, When I perhaps am dead! The beams of morn on his helm did play, 27 And aloud the bugle blew, Then he leaped on his harnessed steed of gray, And sighed to the winds as he galloped{f} away, Adieu, my heart's love, adieu! And now he has joined the warrior train 28 Of knights and barons bold, That, bound to Salem's holy plain, Across the gently-swelling main, Their course exulting hold. With a cross of gold, as on they passed, 29 The crimson streamers flew; The shields hung glittering round the mast, And on the waves a radiance cast, Whilst all the trumpets blew. O'er the Severn-surge, in long array, 30 So, the proud galleys went, Till
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