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"With the glance of many a gallant spear,   And the wave of many a plume, And the bounding of a hundred deer,    It hath lit the woodland's gloom.

"I have seen the knight and his train ride past,   With his banner borne on high; O'er all my leaves there was brightness cast    From his gleaming panoply.

"The Pilgrim at my feet hath laid   His palm branch 'midst the flowers, And told his beads, and meekly pray'd,    Kneeling, at vesper-hours.

"And the merry-men of wild and glen,   In the green array they wore, Have feasted here with the red wine's cheer,    And the hunter's song of yore.