Yet leave this realm, nor will I nor can,
While a stranger treads on her, child or man.
III.
"I will languish no longer a sick King here:
My bed is grievous; build up my Bier.
The white robe a King wears over me throw;
Bear me forth to the field where he camps—
your foe,
With the yellow torches and dirges low.
The heralds have brought his challenge and fled;