Extremity of daring not bereft,
But facing all around in conflict’s ire
His fierce assailants—scattering with his fire
Full many a corse, where Frenchmen thicker fell.
But climbs Clausel’s reserve the mountain higher,
Up craggy steep where doth the Virgin dwell.
Stern was the fight, and Gaul had battled ne’er so well.
XLI.
See from Sauróren in the vale beneath