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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531483" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Jerusalem Delivered - Book 01 - part 06</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531483" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">LXXI<br>Aurora bright her crystal gates unbarred,<br>And bridegroom-like forth stept the glorious sun,<br>When trumpets loud and clarions shrill were heard,<br>And every one to rouse him fierce begun,<br>Sweet music to each heart for war prepared,<br>The soldiers glad by heaps to harness run;<br>So if with drought endangered be their grain,<br>Poor ploughmen joy when thunders promise rain.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531483" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">LXXII<br>Some shirts of mail, some coats of plate put on,<br>Some donned a cuirass, some a corslet bright,<br>And halbert some, and some a habergeon,<br>So every one in arms was quickly dight,<br>His wonted guide each soldier tends upon,<br>Loose in the wind waved their banners light,<br>Their standard royal toward Heaven they spread,<br>The cross triumphant on the Pagans dead.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531483" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">LXXIII<br>Meanwhile the car that bears the lightning brand<br>Upon the eastern hill was mounted high,<br>And smote the glistering armies as they stand,<br>With quivering beams which dazed the wondering eye,<br>That Phaeton-like it fired sea and land,<br>The sparkles seemed up to the skies to fly,<br>The horses' neigh and clattering armors' sound<br>Pursue the echo over dale and down.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531483" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">LXXIV<br>Their general did with due care provide<br>To save his men from ambush and from train,<br>Some troops of horse that lightly armed ride<br>He sent to scour the woods and forests main,<br>His pioneers their busy work applied<br>To even the paths and make the highways plain,<br>They filled the pits, and smoothed the rougher ground,<br>And opened every strait they closed found.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531483" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">LXXV<br>They meet no forces gathered by their foe,<br>No towers defenced with rampire, moat, or wall,<br>No stream, no wood, no mountain could forslow<br>Their hasty pace, or stop their march at all;<br>So when his banks the prince of rivers, Po,<br>Doth overswell, he breaks with hideous fall<br>The mossy rocks and trees o'ergrown with age,<br>Nor aught withstands his fury and his rage.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531483" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">LXXVI<br>The King of Tripoli in every hold<br>Shut up his men, munition and his treasure,<br>The straggling troops sometimes assail he would,<br>Save that he durst not move them to displeasure;<br>He stayed their rage with presents, gifts and gold,<br>And led them through his land at ease and leisure,<br>To keep his realm in peace and rest he chose,<br>With what conditions Godfrey list impose.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531483" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">LXXVII<br>Those of Mount Seir, that neighboreth by east<br>The Holy City, faithful folk each one,<br>Down from the hill descended most and least,<br>And to the Christian Duke by heaps they gone,<br>And welcome him and his with joy and feast;<br>On him they smile, on him they gaze alone,<br>And were his guides, as faithful from that day<br>As Hesperus, that leads the sun his way.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531483" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">LXXVIII<br>Along the sands his armies safe they guide<br>By ways secure, to them well known before,<br>Upon the tumbling billows fraughted ride<br>The armed ships, coasting along the shore,<br>Which for the camp might every day provide<br>To bring munition good and victuals store:<br>The isles of Greece sent in provision meet,<br>And store of wine from Scios came and Crete.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531483" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">LXXIX<br>Great Neptune grieved underneath the load<br>Of ships, hulks, galleys, barks and brigantines,<br>In all the mid-earth seas was left no road<br>Wherein the Pagan his bold sails untwines,<br>Spread was the huge Armado, wide and broad,<br>From Venice, Genes, and towns which them confines,<br>From Holland, England, France and Sicil sent,<br>And all for Juda ready bound and bent.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531483" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">LXXX<br>All these together were combined, and knit<br>With surest bonds of love and friendship strong,<br>Together sailed they fraught with all things fit<br>To service done by land that might belong,<br>And when occasion served disbarked it,<br>Then sailed the Asian coasts and isles along;<br>Thither with speed their hasty course they plied,<br>Where Christ the Lord for our offences died.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531483" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">LXXXI<br>The brazen trump of iron-winged fame,<br>That mingleth faithful troth with forged lies,<br>Foretold the heathen how the Christians came,<br>How thitherward the conquering army hies,<br>Of every knight it sounds the worth and name,<br>Each troop, each band, each squadron it descries,<br>And threat'neth death to those, fire, sword and slaughter,<br>Who held captived Israel's fairest daughter.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531483" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">LXXXII<br>The fear of ill exceeds the evil we fear,<br>For so our present harms still most annoy us,<br>Each mind is prest and open every ear<br>To hear new tidings though they no way joy us,<br>This secret rumor whispered everywhere<br>About the town, these Christians will destroy us,<br>The aged king his coming evil that knew,<br>Did cursed thoughts in his false heart renew.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531483" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">LXXXIII<br>This aged prince ycleped Aladine,<br>Ruled in care, new sovereign of this state,<br>A tyrant erst, but now his fell engine<br>His graver are did somewhat mitigate,<br>He heard the western lords would undermine<br>His city's wall, and lay his towers prostrate,<br>To former fear he adds a new-come doubt,<br>Treason he fears within, and force without.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531483" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">LXXXIV<br>For nations twain inhabit there and dwell<br>Of sundry faith together in that town,<br>The lesser part on Christ believed well,<br>On Termagent the more and on Mahown,<br>But when this king had made this conquest fell,<br>And brought that region subject to his crown,<br>Of burdens all he set the Paynims large,<br>And on poor Christians laid the double charge.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531483" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">LXXXV<br>His native wrath revived with this new thought,<br>With age and years that weakened was of yore,<br>Such madness in his cruel bosom wrought,<br>That now than ever blood he thirsteth more?<br>So stings a snake that to the fire is brought,<br>Which harmless lay benumbed with cold before,<br>A lion so his rage renewed hath,<br>Though fame before, if he be moved to wrath.</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>