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frances arkwright - roland the brave lyrics

the brave roland! + the brave roland! +
false tidings reached the rhenish strand
that he had fallen in fight;
and thy faithful bosom swooned with pain
o loveliest maiden of allémayne!
for the loss of thine own true knight

but why so rash has she ta’en the veil
in yon nonnenwerder’s choisters pale?
for her vow had scarce been sworn
and the fatal mantle o’er her flung
when the drachenfels to a trumpet rung +
’twas her own dear warrior ‘s h+rn!

woe! woe! each heart shall bleed + shall break!
she would have hung upon his neck
had he come but yester+even;
and he had clasped those peerless charms
that shall never, never fill his arms
or meet him but in heaven

yet roland the brave + roland the true +
he could not bid that spot adieu;
it was dear still ‘midst his woes;
for he loved to breathe the neighbouring air
and to think she blessed him in her prayer
when the halleluiah rose
there ‘s yet one window of that pile
which he built above the nun’s green isle;
thence sad and oft looked he
(when the chant and organ sounded slow)
on the mansion of his love below
for herself he might not see

she died! + he sought the battle+plain;
her image filled his dying brain
when he fell and wished to fall:
and her name was in his latest sigh
when roland, the flower of chivalry
exired at roncevall

- frances arkwright lyrics

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