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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531495" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Jerusalem Delivered - Book 03 - part 04</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531495" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">XLVI<br>Three times he strove to view Heaven's golden ray,<br>And raised him on his feeble elbow thrice,<br>And thrice he tumbled on the lowly lay,<br>And three times closed again his dying eyes,<br>He speaks no word, yet makes his signs to pray;<br>He sighs, he faints, he groans, and then he dies;<br>Argantes proud to spoil the corpse disdained,<br>But shook his sword with blood of Dudon stained.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531495" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">XLVII<br>And turning to the Christian knights, he cried:<br>"Lordlings, behold, this bloody reeking blade<br>Last night was given me by your noble guide,<br>Tell him what proof thereof this day is made,<br>Needs must this please him well that is betide,<br>That I so well can use this martial trade,<br>To whom so rare a gift he did present,<br>Tell him the workman fits the instrument.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531495" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">XLVIII<br>"If further proof thereof he long to see,<br>Say it still thirsts, and would his heart-blood drink;<br>And if he haste not to encounter me,<br>Say I will find him when he least doth think."<br>The Christians at his words enraged be,<br>But he to shun their ire doth safely shrink<br>Under the shelter of the neighbor wall,<br>Well guarded with his troops and soldiers all.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531495" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">XLIX<br>Like storms of hail the stones fell down from high,<br>Cast from their bulwarks, flankers, ports and towers,<br>The shafts and quarries from their engines fly,<br>As thick as falling drops in April showers:<br>The French withdrew, they list not press too nigh,<br>The Saracens escaped all the powers,<br>But now Rinaldo from the earth upleapt,<br>Where by the leg his steed had long him kept;<br>L<br>He came and breathed vengeance from his breast<br>'Gainst him that noble Dudon late had slain;<br>And being come thus spoke he to the rest,<br>"Warriors, why stand you gazing here in vain?<br>Pale death our valiant leader had opprest,<br>Come wreak his loss, whom bootless you complain.<br>Those walls are weak, they keep but cowards out<br>No rampier can withstand a courage stout.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531495" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">LI<br>"Of double iron, brass or adamant,<br>Or if this wall were built of flaming fire,<br>Yet should the Pagan vile a fortress want<br>To shroud his coward head safe from mine ire;<br>Come follow then, and bid base fear avaunt,<br>The harder work deserves the greater hire;"<br>And with that word close to the walls he starts,<br>Nor fears he arrows, quarries, stones or darts.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531495" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">LII<br>Above the waves as Neptune lift his eyes<br>To chide the winds, that Trojan ships opprest,<br>And with his countenance calmed seas, winds and skies;<br>So looked Rinaldo, when he shook his crest<br>Before those walls, each Pagan fears and flies<br>His dreadful sight, or trembling stayed at least:<br>Such dread his awful visage on them cast.<br>So seem poor doves at goshawks' sight aghast.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531495" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">LIII<br>The herald Ligiere now from Godfrey came,<br>To will them stay and calm their courage hot;<br>"Retire," quoth he, "Godfrey commands the same;<br>To wreak your ire this season fitteth not;"<br>Though loth, Rinaldo stayed, and stopped the flame,<br>That boiled in his hardy stomach hot;<br>His bridled fury grew thereby more fell,<br>So rivers, stopped, above their banks do swell.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531495" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">LIV<br>The hands retire, not dangered by their foes<br>In their retreat, so wise were they and wary,<br>To murdered Dudon each lamenting goes,<br>From wonted use of ruth they list not vary.<br>Upon their friendly arms they soft impose<br>The noble burden of his corpse to carry:<br>Meanwhile Godfredo from a mountain great<br>Beheld the sacred city and her seat.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531495" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">LV<br>Hierusalem is seated on two hills<br>Of height unlike, and turned side to side,<br>The space between, a gentle valley fills,<br>From mount to mount expansed fair and wide.<br>Three sides are sure imbarred with crags and hills,<br>The rest is easy, scant to rise espied:<br>But mighty bulwarks fence that plainer part,<br>So art helps nature, nature strengtheneth art.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531495" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">LVI<br>The town is stored of troughs and cisterns, made<br>To keep fresh water, but the country seems<br>Devoid of grass, unfit for ploughmen's trade,<br>Not fertile, moist with rivers, wells and streams;<br>There grow few trees to make the summer's shade,<br>To shield the parched land from scorching beams,<br>Save that a wood stands six miles from the town,'<br>With aged cedars dark, and shadows brown.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531495" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">LVII<br>By east, among the dusty valleys, glide<br>The silver streams of Jordan's crystal flood;<br>By west, the Midland Sea, with bounders tied<br>Of sandy shores, where Joppa whilom stood;<br>By north Samaria stands, and on that side<br>The golden calf was reared in Bethel wood;<br>Bethlem by south, where Christ incarnate was,<br>A pearl in steel, a diamond set in brass.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531495" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">LVIII<br>While thus the Duke on every side descried<br>The city's strength, the walls and gates about,<br>And saw where least the same was fortified,<br>Where weakest seemed the walls to keep him out;<br>Ermina as he armed rode, him spied,<br>And thus bespake the heathen tyrant stout,<br>"See Godfrey there, in purple clad and gold,<br>His stately port, and princely look behold.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531495" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">LIX<br>"Well seems he born to be with honor crowned,<br>So well the lore he knows of regiment,<br>Peerless in fight, in counsel grave and sound,<br>The double gift of glory excellent,<br>Among these armies is no warrior found<br>Graver in speech, bolder in tournament.<br>Raymond pardie in counsel match him might;<br>Tancred and young Rinaldo like in fight."</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=531495" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">LX<br>To whom the king: "He likes me well therefore,<br>I knew him whilom in the court of France<br>When I from Egypt went ambassador,<br>I saw him there break many a sturdy lance,<br>And yet his chin no sign of manhood bore;<br>His youth was forward, but with governance,<br>His words, his actions, and his portance brave,<br>Of future virtue, timely tokens gave.</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>