The mother's frantic shrick, or the dread sound, When from the cannon burst its stores of death. Far flames the fire of joy on ruin'd piles,

And high heap'd carcasses, whence scared away From his abhorred meal, on clattering wing

Rose the night-raven slow.

Sad was the scene.

In the English forts,

There all the livelong night

Steals in the stragling fugitive; as when,
Past is the storm, and o'er the azure sky
Serenely shines the sun; with every breeze
The waving branches drop their gather'd rain,
Renewing the remembrance of the storm.

The Seventh Book.

Description of the English forts. The French troops attack and capture the forts of St. Loup and St. John. Attack of Fort London. Salisbury encounters the Maid. Event of that encounter. The Tournelles surrounded by the French, who dispatch a troop to Orleans for provisions, and encamp before it for the night.