With a glee-maid young and fair,

If mayhap their merry voices

Would beguile thy weary care.”

“Hawk may sleep, and hound may slumber,

My impatient steed must wait,

Nor care I to hear the minstrel

Who is resting at the gate.

“E’en the keen breeze of the mountains

Would not cool my fevered brow,

E’en the shrill note of the trumpet