For herself he might not see.
"She died! He sought the battle plain,
Her image fill'd his dying brain,
When he fell and wish'd to fall;
And her name was in his latest sigh,
When Roland, the flower of chivalry,
Expired at Roncevall."
F. M. Middleton.
Scott has, in Marmion,—
"When Roland brave, and Olivier,