Thy hand is on a lion’s mane.”

XIII.

“Minstrel,” the maid replied, and high

Her father’s soul glanced from her eye,

“My debts to Roderick’s house I know:

All that a mother could bestow,

To Lady Margaret’s care I owe,

Since first an orphan in the wild

She sorrow’d o’er her sister’s child;

To her brave chieftain son, from ire