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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531478" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Jerusalem Delivered - Book 01 - part 01</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531478" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">THE ARGUMENT.<br>God sends his angel to Tortosa down,<br>Godfrey unites the Christian Peers and Knights;<br>And all the Lords and Princes of renown<br>Choose him their Duke, to rule the wares and fights.<br>He mustereth all his host, whose number known,<br>He sends them to the fort that Sion hights;<br>The aged tyrant Juda's land that guides,<br>In fear and trouble, to resist provides.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531478" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><br>I<br>The sacred armies, and the godly knight,<br>That the great sepulchre of Christ did free,<br>I sing; much wrought his valor and foresight,<br>And in that glorious war much suffered he;<br>In vain 'gainst him did Hell oppose her might,<br>In vain the Turks and Morians armed be:<br>His soldiers wild, to brawls and mutinies prest,<br>Reduced he to peace, so Heaven him blest.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531478" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">II<br>O heavenly Muse, that not with fading bays<br>Deckest thy brow by the Heliconian spring,<br>But sittest crowned with stars' immortal rays<br>In Heaven, where legions of bright angels sing;<br>Inspire life in my wit, my thoughts upraise,<br>My verse ennoble, and forgive the thing,<br>If fictions light I mix with truth divine,<br>And fill these lines with other praise than thine.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531478" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">III<br>Thither thou know'st the world is best inclined<br>Where luring Parnass most his sweet imparts,<br>And truth conveyed in verse of gentle kind<br>To read perhaps will move the dullest hearts:<br>So we, if children young diseased we find,<br>Anoint with sweets the vessel's foremost parts<br>To make them taste the potions sharp we give;<br>They drink deceived, and so deceived, they live.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531478" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">IV<br>Ye noble Princes, that protect and save<br>The Pilgrim Muses, and their ship defend<br>From rock of Ignorance and Error's wave,<br>Your gracious eyes upon this labor bend:<br>To you these tales of love and conquest brave<br>I dedicate, to you this work I send:<br>My Muse hereafter shall perhaps unfold<br>Your fights, your battles, and your combats bold.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531478" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">V<br>For if the Christian Princes ever strive<br>To win fair Greece out of the tyrants' hands,<br>And those usurping Ismaelites deprive<br>Of woful Thrace, which now captived stands,<br>You must from realms and seas the Turks forth drive,<br>As Godfrey chased them from Juda's lands,<br>And in this legend, all that glorious deed,<br>Read, whilst you arm you; arm you, whilst you read.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531478" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">VI<br>Six years were run since first in martial guise<br>The Christian Lords warraid the eastern land;<br>Nice by assault, and Antioch by surprise,<br>Both fair, both rich, both won, both conquered stand,<br>And this defended they in noblest wise<br>'Gainst Persian knights and many a valiant band;<br>Tortosa won, lest winter might them shend,<br>They drew to holds, and coming spring attend.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531478" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">VII<br>The sullen season now was come and gone,<br>That forced them late cease from their noble war,<br>When God Almighty form his lofty throne,<br>Set in those parts of Heaven that purest are<br>(As far above the clear stars every one,<br>As it is hence up to the highest star),<br>Looked down, and all at once this world beheld,<br>Each land, each city, country, town and field.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531478" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">VIII<br>All things he viewed, at last in Syria stayed<br>Upon the Christian Lords his gracious eye,<br>That wondrous look wherewith he oft surveyed<br>Men's secret thoughts that most concealed lie<br>He cast on puissant Godfrey, that assayed<br>To drive the Turks from Sion's bulwarks high,<br>And, full of zeal and faith, esteemed light<br>All worldly honor, empire, treasure, might:</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531478" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">IX<br>In Baldwin next he spied another thought,<br>Whom spirits proud to vain ambition move:<br>Tancred he saw his life's joy set at naught,<br>So woe-begone was he with pains of love:<br>Boemond the conquered folk of Antioch brought,<br>The gentle yoke of Christian rule to prove:<br>He taught them laws, statutes and customs new,<br>Arts, crafts, obedience, and religion true;</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531478" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">X<br>And with such care his busy work he plied,<br>That to naught else his acting thoughts he bent:<br>In young Rinaldo fierce desires he spied,<br>And noble heart of rest impatient;<br>To wealth or sovereign power he naught applied<br>His wits, but all to virtue excellent;<br>Patterns and rules of skill, and courage bold,<br>He took from Guelpho, and his fathers old.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=Torquato+Tasso">Torquato Tasso</a></strong></div>