Detdiar sidj as efterluket wurden.
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Long ago a noble lady dwelt in furthest Frankistan,
Of whose wondrous beauty tidings to remotest kingdoms
ran;
Princes sued her royal father for his peerless daughter's hand
All in vain ; the heart- free Ellen would not hear of marriage-
band.
Once adown the garden walked she, fresh as Emily the
bright
Seen, as chants the English rhymer, for the first time by
Arcite ;
And, like her, she plucked the roses, ere the sun had kissed
away
Half the tears they shed in darkness for the absent lord of
day.
* "The Tomb of the Christian Princess" is founded on a popular legend
related by Prax in the Revue de l'Orient, for November, 1849.
