I pierce the blue skies—I am earth’s no more!”
MARGUERITE OF FRANCE.[401]
“Thou falcon-hearted dove!”—Coleridge.
The Moslem spears were gleaming
Round Damietta’s towers,
Though a Christian banner from her wall
Waved free its lily-flowers.
Ay, proudly did the banner wave,
As queen of earth and air;
But faint hearts throb’d beneath its folds