"On that blood-reeking plain. Your humbled foes "Lurk trembling now amid their massy walls; "Wolves that have ravaged the neglected flock!

"The Shepherd the Great Shepherd is arisen I

Ye fly yet shall not ye by flight escape

"His vengeance. Men of Orleans! it were vain

By words to waken wrath within your breasts.

"Look round! Your holy buildings and your homes—

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"Ruins that choke the way your populous town—

"One open sepulchre ! who is there here

"That does not mourn a friend, a brother slain,

"A parent famish'd-or his dear loved wife "Torn from his bosom-outcast-broken hearted"Cast on the mercy of mankind?

She ceased.

The cry of indignation from the host

Burst forth, and all impatient for the war
Demand the signal. These Dunois arrays

In four battalions. Xaintrailles, tried in war,.

Commands the first; Xaintrailles, who oft subdued

By adverse fortune to the captive chain,

Still more tremendous to the enemy,

Lifted his death-fraught lance, as erst from earth

Antæus vaunting in his giant bulk,

When graspt by force Herculean, down he fell Vanquisht; anon uprose more fierce for war.

Gaucour o'er one presides, the steady friend
To long imprison'd Orleans; of his town
Beloved guardian, he the dreadful siege
Firmly abiding, prudent still to plan
Irruption, and with youthful vigour swift
To lead the battle, from his soldiers love
Prompter obedience gained, than ever fear
Forced from the heart reluctant.

The third band

Alencon leads. He on the fatal field

Verneuil, when Buchan and the Douglas died, Fell senseless. Guiltless he of that day's loss, Wore undisgraced awhile the captive chain.

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"His vengeance. Men of Orleans! it were vain

By adverse fortune to the captive chain,

Still more tremendous to the enemy,

Lifted his deatti-fraught lance, as erat frun cara

Antæus vaunting in his giant bulk,

When graspt by force Herenican, down be

Vanquisht, aut prose more fierce for

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Gaucour der one presides, the steady inc

To long imprised Orleans; of an

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Irruption, and

The Monarch him mindful of his high rank
Had ransom'd, once again to meet the foe

With better fortune.

O'er the last presides

Dunois the Bastard, mighty in the war.
His prowess knew the foes, and his fair fame
Confess'd, since when before his stripling arm
Fled Warwick, Warwick, he whose fair renown
Greece knew and Antioch and the holy soil
Of Palestine, since there in arms he pass'd
On gallant pilgrimage, yet by Dunois

Baffled, and yielding him the conqueror's praise.
And by his side the Martial Maiden pass'd,
Lovely in arms as that Arcadian boy
Parthenopeus, when the war of beasts

Ipsam, Mænaliâ puerum cum vidit in umbrâ,,
Dianam, tenero signantem gramina passu,
Ignovisse ferunt comiti, Dictæaque tela

Ipsam, et Amyclæas humeris aptasse pharetras.
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