Is the fair Seat that shall to thine succeed, 110
When these famed kingdoms shall as sisters be,
And one great sovereign rule the powerful three.
Then yon rich Vale, far stretching to the west,
Beyond thy bound, shall be by one possess’d;
Then shall true grace and dignity accord—
With splendour, ease—the Castle with its Lord.”
The Baron waked—“It was,” he cried, “a view
Lively as truth, and I will think it true.
Some gentle spirit to my mind has brought