Alike deserving in the Order’s cause.
But hitherto the brethren’s general voice
Placed Wallenrod the highest over all
A stranger he, in Prussia all unknown,
But foreign houses of his fame were full[2]
Following the Moors upon Castilian sierras,
The Ottoman through ocean’s troubled waves,
In battle at the front, first on the wall,
To grapple vessels of the infidel
The first; and in the tourney, soon as he