DE LOPEZ THE BRAVE.
“The age of chivalry is gone.”—Burke.
I.
In days of yore, when minstrel song
Ne’er swell’d ‘to please a peasant’s ear,’
But ladye fair, and knightly throng,
Were pleas’d his gentle harp to hear;
There liv’d in Spain, a knight of fame—
His deeds as gallant as his name—
De Lopez—stainless arms he wore,