THE CHANTRY

A LOYAL lady young; a knight for honor slain:

All beauty and all quiet sealed for aye upon

Their images that lie in coif and morion.

A moment since, through rifts and pauses of the rain,

The day shot in; the lancet window showered again

Its moth-like play of silver, rose, and sapphire; shone

What arms of warring duchies glorious, bygone:

Lombardy, Desmond, Malta, suitored Aquitaine!