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 “Might ever son command a sire, The act were justified to-day.” This to himself—and to the Maid, Whom now he had approached, he said, —“Gone are they,—they have their desire; And I with thee one hour will stay, To give thee comfort if I may.”

He paused, her silence to partake, And long it was before he spake: Then, all at once, his thoughts turned round, And fervent words a passage found.

“Gone are they, bravely, though misled, With a dear Father at their head! The Sons obey a natural lord; The Father had given solemn word To noble Percy,—and a force Still stronger bends him to his course.