Troubadour Song
The warrior cross'd the ocean's foam
For the stormy fields of war;
The maid was left in a smiling home
And a sunny land afar.
His voice was heard where javelin showers
Pour'd on the steel-clad line;
Her step was 'midst the summer flowers,
Her seat beneath the vine.
His shield was cleft, his lance was riven,
And the red blood stain'd his crest;
While she — the gentlest wind of heaven,
Might scarcely fan her breast.
Yet a thousand arrows pass'd him by,
And again he cross'd the seas;
But she had died as roses die
That perish with a breeze.
As roses die, when the blast is come
For all things bright and fair —
There was death within the smiling home —
How had death found her there?
For the stormy fields of war;
The maid was left in a smiling home
And a sunny land afar.
His voice was heard where javelin showers
Pour'd on the steel-clad line;
Her step was 'midst the summer flowers,
Her seat beneath the vine.
His shield was cleft, his lance was riven,
And the red blood stain'd his crest;
While she — the gentlest wind of heaven,
Might scarcely fan her breast.
Yet a thousand arrows pass'd him by,
And again he cross'd the seas;
But she had died as roses die
That perish with a breeze.
As roses die, when the blast is come
For all things bright and fair —
There was death within the smiling home —
How had death found her there?
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