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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531492" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Jerusalem Delivered - Book 03 - part 01</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531492" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">THE ARGUMENT.<br>The camp at great Jerusalem arrives:<br>Clorinda gives them battle, in the breast<br>Of fair Erminia Tancred's love revives,<br>He jousts with her unknown whom he loved best;<br>Argant th' adventurers of their guide deprives,<br>With stately pomp they lay their Lord in chest:<br>Godfrey commands to cut the forest down,<br>And make strong engines to assault the town.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531492" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><br>I<br>The purple morning left her crimson bed,<br>And donned her robes of pure vermilion hue,<br>Her amber locks she crowned with roses red,<br>In Eden's flowery gardens gathered new.<br>When through the camp a murmur shrill was spread,<br>Arm, arm, they cried; arm, arm, the trumpets blew,<br>Their merry noise prevents the joyful blast,<br>So hum small bees, before their swarms they cast.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531492" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">II<br>Their captain rules their courage, guides their heat,<br>Their forwardness he stayed with gentle rein;<br>And yet more easy, haply, were the feat<br>To stop the current near Charybdis main,<br>Or calm the blustering winds on mountains great,<br>Than fierce desires of warlike hearts restrain;<br>He rules them yet, and ranks them in their haste,<br>For well he knows disordered speed makes waste.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531492" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">III<br>Feathered their thoughts, their feet in wings were dight,<br>Swiftly they marched, yet were not tired thereby,<br>For willing minds make heaviest burdens light.<br>But when the gliding sun was mounted high,<br>Jerusalem, behold, appeared in sight,<br>Jerusalem they view, they see, they spy,<br>Jerusalem with merry noise they greet,<br>With joyful shouts, and acclamations sweet.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531492" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">IV<br>As when a troop of jolly sailors row<br>Some new-found land and country to descry,<br>Through dangerous seas and under stars unknowe,<br>Thrall to the faithless waves, and trothless sky,<br>If once the wished shore begun to show,<br>They all salute it with a joyful cry,<br>And each to other show the land in haste,<br>Forgetting quite their pains and perils past.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531492" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">V<br>To that delight which their first sight did breed,<br>That pleased so the secret of their thought<br>A deep repentance did forthwith succeed<br>That reverend fear and trembling with it brought,<br>Scantly they durst their feeble eyes dispreed<br>Upon that town where Christ was sold and bought,<br>Where for our sins he faultless suffered pain,<br>There where he died and where he lived again.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531492" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">VI<br>Soft words, low speech, deep sobs, sweet sighs, salt tears<br>Rose from their hearts, with joy and pleasure mixed;<br>For thus fares he the Lord aright that fears,<br>Fear on devotion, joy on faith is fixed:<br>Such noise their passions make, as when one hears<br>The hoarse sea waves roar, hollow rocks betwixt;<br>Or as the wind in holts and shady greaves,<br>A murmur makes among the boughs and leaves.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531492" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">VII<br>Their naked feet trod on the dusty way,<br>Following the ensample of their zealous guide,<br>Their scarfs, their crests, their plumes and feathers gay,<br>They quickly doffed, and willing laid aside,<br>Their molten hearts their wonted pride allay,<br>Along their watery cheeks warm tears down slide,<br>And then such secret speech as this, they used,<br>While to himself each one himself accused.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531492" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">VIII<br>"Flower of goodness, root of lasting bliss,<br>Thou well of life, whose streams were purple blood<br>That flowed here, to cleanse the soul amiss<br>Of sinful men, behold this brutish flood,<br>That from my melting heart distilled is,<br>Receive in gree these tears, O Lord so good,<br>For never wretch with sin so overgone<br>Had fitter time or greater cause to moan."</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531492" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">IX<br>This while the wary watchman looked over,<br>From tops of Sion's towers, the hills and dales,<br>And saw the dust the fields and pastures cover,<br>As when thick mists arise from moory vales.<br>At last the sun-bright shields he gan discover,<br>And glistering helms for violence none that fails,<br>The metal shone like lightning bright in skies,<br>And man and horse amid the dust descries.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531492" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">X<br>Then loud he cries, "O what a dust ariseth!<br>O how it shines with shields and targets clear!<br>Up, up, to arms, for valiant heart despiseth<br>The threatened storm of death and danger near.<br>Behold your foes;" then further thus deviseth,<br>"Haste, haste, for vain delay increaseth fear,<br>These horrid clouds of dust that yonder fly,<br>Your coming foes does hide, and hide the sky."</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531492" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">XI<br>The tender children, and the fathers old,<br>The aged matrons, and the virgin chaste,<br>That durst not shake the spear, nor target hold,<br>Themselves devoutly in their temples placed;<br>The rest, of members strong and courage bold,<br>On hardy breasts their harness donned in haste,<br>Some to the walls, some to the gates them dight,<br>Their king meanwhile directs them all aright.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531492" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">XII<br>All things well ordered, he withdrew with speed<br>Up to a turret high, two ports between,<br>That so he might be near at every need,<br>And overlook the lands and furrows green.<br>Thither he did the sweet Erminia lead,<br>That in his court had entertained been<br>Since Christians Antioch did to bondage bring,<br>And slew her father, who thereof was king.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531492" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">XIII<br>Against their foes Clorinda sallied out,<br>And many a baron bold was by her side,<br>Within the postern stood Argantes stout<br>To rescue her, if ill mote her betide:<br>With speeches brave she cheered her warlike rout,<br>And with bold words them heartened as they ride,<br>"Let us by some brave act," quoth she, "this day<br>Of Asia's hopes the groundwork found and lay."</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531492" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">XIV<br>While to her folk thus spake the virgin brave,<br>Thereby behold forth passed a Christian band<br>Toward the camp, that herds of cattle drave,<br>For they that morn had forayed all the land;<br>The fierce virago would that booty save,<br>Whom their commander singled hand for hand,<br>A mighty man at arms, who Guardo hight,<br>But far too weak to match with her in fight.<br>XV<br>They met, and low in dust was Guardo laid,<br>'Twixt either army, from his sell down kest,<br>The Pagans shout for joy, and hopeful said,<br>Those good beginnings would have endings blest:<br>Against the rest on went the noble maid,<br>She broke the helm, and pierced the armed breast,<br>Her men the paths rode through made by her sword,<br>They pass the stream where she had found the ford.</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>