Full-garrisoned by feudal myrmidons,

Might strike to Roland's heart the chill of doubt.

Four-square to the four winds the fortress stands,

Pinnacled high upon a frowning rock.

It hath survived the many-centuried shock

Of elements, the assault of myriad hands,

And to the attack will you now lead your bands,

Whose rage crag-crowning battlements seem to mock?

True from those battlements they've hung, in scorn,

Your herald, whose torn trappings wildly wave