There are helms and lances cleft;

And they that moved at morn elate

On a bed of heath are left!

There’s many a fair young face

Which the war-steed hath gone o’er;

At many a board there is kept a place

For those that come no more!”

“Alas! for love, for woman’s breast,

If woe like this must be!

Hast thou seen a youth with an eagle-crest,