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 CHÂTEAU D'HAUTEFORT: NOW

SUNLIT castle on a solemn height Whence the broad distance rolling like a sea Stretches below light-bathed immensity! The glory of thy past has taken flight, But not thy beauty, Hautefort! That shines bright, Though loyalty and truth and constancy In the last seignior's grave all buried be And he has joined his king, that last true knight!

Hautefort! once strong to shelter, at thy feet The little feudal village lingers still, Like group of frightened children that have run To seek protection. While its slanting street The purple shades of falling twilight fill, Thy towers, still glorious, catch the vanished sun.