The Troubadour o’er many a plain

Hath roam’d unwearied, but in vain.

O’er many a rugged mountain-scene

And forest wild his track hath been:

Beneath Calabria’s glowing sky

He hath sung the songs of chivalry;

His voice hath swell’d on the Alpine breeze,

And rung through the snowy Pyrenees;

From Ebro’s banks to Danube’s wave,

He hath sought his prince, the loved, the brave;