Rest—we will guard thee well!
St Denis for the Lily-flower
And the Christian citadel!”
[401] Queen of St Louis. Whilst besieged by the Turks in Damietta, during the captivity of the king her husband, she there gave birth to a son, whom she named Tristan, in commemoration of her misfortunes. Information being conveyed to her, that the knights intrusted with the defence of the city had resolved on capitulation, she had them summoned to her apartment; and, by her heroic words, so wrought upon their spirits, that they vowed to defend her and the Cross to the last extremity.
[402] The proposal to capitulate is attributed by the French historian to the Knights of Pisa.
THE WANDERER.
TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN OF SCHMIDT VON LUBECK.
I come down from the hills alone;
Mist wraps the vale, the billows moan!
I wander on in thoughtful care,