The sculptured saint that crown’d its door:

Less welcome now were monarch’s dome,

Than that low cell, some hermit’s home.

Thither the outcasts bent their way,

By the last lingering gleam of day;

When from a cavern’d rock, which cast

Deep shadows o’er them as they pass’d,

A form, a warrior form of might,

As from earth’s bosom, sprang to sight.

His port was lofty—yet the heart