He parted, thirsting for his foeman's blood,
Haughty and ruthless in his angry mood ;-
He comes, affliction's soften'd child, to bear
Pardon to those that tremble and despair;
Lock'd in his breast, forgotten vengeance slept,
And love rekindled, when the traitor wept.
Yes,-while low crouching on his suppliant knee,
He fears an injured brother's stern decree,
He little knows where gen'rous passions live :-
The mean are cruel,-but the brave forgive.
Great in the battle's strife, the dungeon's gloom,
What arm of terror forced thee to the tomb?
While, awed to silence by the wond'rous tale,
E'en at thy name Arabia's son grew pale,'
Or, if his fiery steed, with startled tread,
Shrunk from the thicket's pathless side in dread,
He fear'd, lest, seen amid the twilight shade,
Thy form had cross'd him in the tangled glade,1-
What giant warrior dared to stem thy course,
Unscared by treach'ry, and untamed by force?
One humble arm, one silent shaft could bring
Fate's awful summons on its noiseless wing.
Yet, tho' the clarion spoke not, tho' the sound
Of festal triumph scarce was heard around,
Tho', from her brow the with'ring chaplet torn,
Sad Vict'ry stoop'd her haughty head to mourn,-
In that dark hour a purer bliss was given,
And peaceful seraphs hymn'd their joy in heaven,
When on thy lips their own compassion hung,3.
And mercy trembled on thy falt'ring tongue,
When, quell'd each earthly foe, thy virtue broke
Vindictive feeling's sway, and passion's yoke,
In thy last breath forgiveness' voice was heard,
And life's best conquest crown'd thy latest word.
JOSEPH ANSTICE,
CHRIST CHURCH.

1 See Gibbon's Decline and Fall, vol. xi. p. 146.

"La valeur de Richard fut si renommée, que long-temps après la mort de ce prince, quand un cheval tressailloit sans cause, les Sarrasins disoient, qu'il avoit vu l'ombre de Richard.”—Chateaubriand, Itinér. tome ii. p. 271.

"Tunc præcepit eum (Bertramnum de Gurdun) rex solvi, et dixit, Remitto tibi mortem meam."-R. de Hoveden. p. 449.

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