The bearer drags its glorious folds Behind the fallen chief, As mournfully and slowly The afflicted warriors come, i To the deep wail of the trumpet, And beat of muffled drum. Brave Aliatar led forward A hundred Moors to go To where his brother held Motril On horseback went the gallant Moor, And now his bier is at the gate, From whence he pricked his steed. While mournfully and slowly The afflicted warriors come, To the deep wail of the trumpet, The knights of the Grand Master In crowded ambush lay; They rushed upon him where the reeds Were thick beside the way; They smote the valiant Aliatar, They smote the warrior dead, And broken, but not beaten, were To the deep wail of the trumpei, Oh! what was Zayda's sorrow, Her lover's wounds streamed not more free Say, Love-for didst thou see her tears: To spare his eyes the sight. To the deep wail of the trumpet, Nor Zayda weeps him only, But all that dwell between The great Alhambra's palace walls And springs of Albaicin. The ladies weep the flower of knights, The brave the bravest here; The people weep a champion, The Alcaydes a noble peer. While mournfully and slowly The afflicted warriors come, To the deep wail of the trumpet, And beat of muffled drum. LOVE IN THE AGE OF CHIVALRY. FROM PEYRE VIDAL, THE TROUBADOUR. THE earth was sown with early flowers, The heavens were blue and bright— I met a youthful cavalier As lovely as the light. I knew him not-but in my heart And well I marked his open brow, His ruddy lips that ever smiled, And flowing robe embroidered o'er, He wore a chaplet of the rose; Was marked with many an ebon spot, And brightly in his stirrup glanced |