“With the glance of many a gallant spear,

And the wave of many a plume,

And the bounding of a hundred deer,

It has lit the woodland’s gloom.

“I have seen the knight and his train ride past,

With his banner borne on high;

O’er all my leaves there was brightness cast

From his gleaming panoply.

“The pilgrim at my feet hath laid

His palm-branch midst the flowers,