"A death-like shade— Like that beneath black boughs and foliage green O'er the cold stream in Alpine glens display'd."
"O'er all the sandy desert falling slow, Were shower'd dilated flakes of fire, like snow On Alpine summits, when the wind is low."
"So will a greater fame redound to thee, To have formed a party by thyself alone."
[44] Translated by Charles Leonard-Stuart.
[45] This Emperor was Albert I, son of Rudolph I.
[46] James van Artevelde was called "the Brewer of Ghent," because, although born an aristocrat, he was enrolled in the Guild of Brewers.
[47] Translated from the French by Thomas Johnes.