For here the exile met from every clime,

And spoke in friendship every distant tongue:

Men from the blood of warring Europe sprung,

Were but divided by the running brook;

And happy where no Rhenish trumpet sung,

On plains no sieging mine’s volcano shook,

The blue-eyed German changed his sword to pruning-hook.

V.

Nor far some Andalusian saraband

Would sound to many a native roundelay—