And with its own wild light in fearful forms array’d. }

In this old Hall, in this departing day,

Assembled friends and neighbours, grave and gay;

When one good lady at a picture threw

A glance that caused inquiry.—“Tell us who?”

“That was a famous warrior; one, they said,

That by a spirit was awhile obey’d;

In all his dreadful battles he would say,

‘Or win or lose, I shall escape to-day’;

And, though the shot as thick as hail came round, 110