As a fair maiden bewilder'd in sorrow,

Sigh'd to the breezes and wept to the flood.

"Saints from the mansion of bliss lowly bending,

Virgin, that hear'st the poor suppliant's cry,

Grant my petition, in anguish ascending.

My Frederick restore, or let Eleanor die."

Distant and faint were the sounds of the battle,

With the breezes they rise, with the breezes they fail,

Till the shout, and the groan, and the conflict's dread rattle,

And the chase's wild clamour came loading the gale.