They trusted his soul had gotten grace.

Often had William of Deloraine

Rode through the battle's bloody plain,

And trampled down the warriors slain,

And neither known remorse nor awe;

Yet now remorse and awe he own'd;

His breath came thick, his head swam round.

When this strange scene of death he saw.

Bewilder'd and unnerved he stood.

And the priest pray'd fervently and loud: