Dead lay the wanderer at her own proud gate!
The joy of courts, the star of knight and bard—
How didst thou fall, O bright-hair’d Ermengarde!
THE MOURNER FOR THE BARMECIDES.
“O good old man! how well in thee appears
The constant service of the antique world!
Thou art not for the fashion of these times.”
As You Like It.
Fallen was the house of Giafar; and its name,
The high romantic name of Barmecide,