Thomas Campbell - Adelgitha
The ordeal's fatal trumpet sounded, <br /> And sad pale Adelgitha came, <br /> When forth a valiant champion bounded, <br /> And slew the slanderer of her fame. <br /> She wept, delivered from her danger; <br /> But when he knelt to claim her glove- <br /> "Seek not!" she cried, "oh, gallant stranger, <br /> For hapless Adelgitha's love. <br /> <br /> For he is dead and in a foreign land <br /> Whose arm should now have set me free; <br /> And I must wear the willow garland <br /> For him that's dead, or false to me." <br /> <br /> "Nay! say not that his faith is tainted!"- <br /> He raised his visor.-At the sight <br /> She fell into his arms and fainted; <br /> It was indeed her one true knight!<br /><br />Thomas Campbell<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/adelgitha/
