Page:Felicia Hemans in the New Monthly Magazine Volume 11 1824.pdf/8



' a trumpet's pealing sound! And the Knight look'd down from the Paynim's tower, And a Christian host, in its pride and power, Through the pass beneath him wound. Cease awhile, clarion! clarion wild and shrill, Cease! let them hear the captive's voice—be still!

"I knew 'twas a trumpet's note! And I see my brethren's lances gleam, And their pennons wave, by the mountain-stream,    And their plumes to the glad wind float! Cease awhile, clarion! clarion wild and shrill, Cease! let them hear the captive's voice,—be still!

"I am here, with my heavy chain! And I look on a torrent, sweeping by, And an eagle, rushing to the sky,    And a host, to its battle-plain! Cease awhile, clarion! clarion wild and shrill, Cease! let them hear the captive's voice,—be still!

"Must I pine in my fetters here? With the wild wave's foam, and the free bird's flight, And the tall spears glancing on my sight,    And the trumpet in mine ear? Cease awhile, clarion! clarion wild and shrill, Cease! let them hear the captive's voice,—be still!

"They are gone! they have all pass'd by! They in whose wars I had borne my part, They that I loved with a brother's heart,    They have left me here to die! Sound again, clarion! clarion, pour thy blast! Sound! for the captive's dream of hope is past!"F. H.