On the white steed, and with the castled helm,

And the gold-broider’d mantle, which doth float

E’en like a sunny cloud above the fight;

And the pale cross, which from his breastplate gleams

With star-like radiance?

Gon. (eagerly.) Didst thou say the cross?

Her. On his mail’d bosom shines a broad white cross,

And his long plumage through the dark’ning air

Streams like a snow-wreath.

Gon. That should be—