Poems from Eastern Sources: The Steadfast Prince; and Other Poems

by Richard Chenevix Trench

Crowned with innumerous hosts, that hemmed their way,

Then rushed to seize an unresisting prey.

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Yet did not then that instant peril tame

The courage of that high heroic band:

The bold Crusaders, worthy that high name,

With dauntless front from morn to evening stand;

Although when darkness did at length command

Brief truce from arms, the boldest needs must own