Says Clarien: "To death he's stricken down. But Rollant feels he's no more time to seek; Looking to Spain, he lies on a sharp peak, And with one hand upon his breast he beats: "Mea Culpa! You can view our. So proud is Charles, his men so valiant, Never saw I a race so combatant. These answer him: "Dear lord, it shall be done." So are they come, with joy and gladness out, They pass Nerbone by force and by vigour, Come to Burdele, that city of high valour. LXXVIII From the other part, Chemubles of Muneigre. AOI. Penn State Press, 1978 - Literary Collections - 292 pages. But what avail, since none can answer bear? Then turns his eyes towards the Orient, Calls upon God with heartiest intent: "Very Father, this day do me defend, Who to Jonas succour didst truly send Out of the whale's belly, where he was pent; And who didst spare the king of Niniven, And Daniel from marvellous torment When he was caged within the lions' den; And three children, all in a fire ardent: Thy gracious Love to me be here present. Pagans, strike on, and so this press set loose!" Answers him Guenes: "I know; 'tis true in-deed." Nor can he help but weep and sigh at this. Five score thousand weep, who that sight regard. Bitter great grief has Charlemagne the King, Who Duke Naimun before him sees lying, On the green grass all his clear blood shedding. That Emperour, who left us Franks on guard, A thousand score stout men he set apart, And well he knows, not one will prove coward. See here my sword, that is both good and long With Durendal I'll lay it well across; Ye'll hear betimes to which the prize is gone. Then said the King, his war was now abated. Then says the King: "Now God be praised, I swear! AOI. Upon these words grow bold again the Franks; There is not one but he "Monjoie" demands. The Song of Roland (Modern Library Classics) - Kindle edition by Merwin, W. S., Merwin, W. S.. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. AOI. There he falls down, and lies upon the green; He swoons again, for death is very near. Before Marsile among the rest is gone, Says to the King: "Let not dismay be shewn! Says Oliver: "Pagans from there I saw; Never on earth did any man see more. And the Franks cried: "Ah! Charles canters on, by valleys and by mounts, Not before Aix will he not make sojourn; Canters so far, on th'terrace he dismounts. Upon these words the hosts are come touching. Pagans cry out: "Our Marches shall be held; There is no Frank, may once with him contest, Will he or nill, his life he'll soon have spent. —Mark Jarman, And there appeared to them Elijah and Moses and they were talking to Jesus. "Now by my head I'll go!" Rollant hath set the olifant to his mouth, He grasps it well, and with great virtue sounds. In Song of Roland, the ideas of chivalry and loyalty to one’s king are central. I enjoy thinking of my mother, who has by now forgotten a lot, at about 9 or 10 years old with this older cousin, one of the many she had in her large extended family, who made that day so memorable to her." Then said Tierri "Bold art thou, Pinabel, Thou'rt great and strong, with body finely bred; For vassalage thy peers esteem thee well: Of this battle let us now make an end! They've torn from me the flower of France the Douce." "Never," says Guene, "so long as lives Rollanz, From hence to the East there is no such vassal; And proof also, Oliver his comrade; The dozen peers he cherishes at hand, These are his guard, with twenty thousand Franks. AOI. With Charlemagne I soon will have thee friends; To Guenelun such justice shall be dealt Day shall not dawn but men of it will tell." Two hundred years and more, I understand, He has gone forth and conquered many a land, Such blows hath borne from many a trenchant lance, Vanquished and slain of kings so rich a band, When will time come that he from war draws back?" Your trumpets sound, as many as ye bear!" Leave we the fools, and with the wise be one." Margariz is a very gallant knight, Both fair and strong, and swift he is and light; He spurs his horse, goes Oliver to strike, And breaks his shield, by th'golden buckle bright; Along his ribs the pagan's spear doth glide; God's his warrant, his body has respite, The shaft breaks off, Oliver stays upright; That other goes, naught stays him in his flight, His trumpet sounds, rallies his tribe to fight. We're messengers from pagan Baligant; To Marsilies, he says, he'll be warrant, So sends him here his glove, also this wand. Charles laid him down, but sorrow for Rollant And Oliver, most heavy on him he had, For's dozen peers, for all the Frankish band He had left dead in bloody Rencesvals; He could not help, but wept and waxed mad, And prayed to God to be their souls' Warrant. Roland’s horn resounds through ages Of high school lit classes. AOI. 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