Ah, brazen, were your heart as strong as looked your square-chinned ramparts.... Long
We waited at the gates in dust knee-deep. The Emperor did not trust
The help that he had craved. He swore he had not asked so many ... more
Would ruin him.... He let the heat suck out our strength at every pore.
But we were told great noblemen, Godfrey of Bouillon in Ardennes,
Robert of Flanders, "Sword and Lance of Christians," all the flower of France
Were on our side, Hugh Vermandois, Stephen of Chartres and Troyes and Blois,
Baldwin and Raymond of Toulouse. The preacher said we could not lose.
Moreover he had spoken with angel-reserves behind us, sith
They sent assurance (Saracens we mocked, but had our own Hadith)