...led, And steel-clad champions bowed the crested head. There, when her fiery race the desert pour'd, And pale Byzantium fear'd Medina's sword, When coward Asia shook in trembling woe, And bent appalled before the Baetrian bow ; From the moist regions of the western star The wand'ring hermit...

...repulse of Napoleon before Acre. THERE, where her fiery race the desert pour'd, And pale Byzantium1 fear'd Medina's sword, When coward Asia shook in trembling woe, And bent appall'd before the Bactrian2 bow : 1 Constantinople. - From Bactria — the old name of Tartary. The Turks, who had subdued...

...And pale Byzantium fear'd Medina's sword, When coward Asia shook in trembling woe, And bent appalled before the Bactrian bow ; From the moist regions of the western star The wand' ring hermit waked the storm of war. Their limbs all iron, and their souls all flame, A countless...

...And pale Byzantium feared Medina's sword, When coward Asia shook in trembling woe, An.d bent appalled before the Bactrian bow; From the moist regions of the western star The wandering Hermit waked the storm of war. Their limbs all iron, and their souls all flame, A countless host, the red-cross...

...champions bow'd the crested head. There, when hi>r fiery race the desert pour'd, And pale Byzantium fear'A Medina's sword, When coward Asia shook in trembling woe, And bent appall'd before the Baftrian bow ; From the moist regions of the western star The wandering hermit wak'd the storm of war....

...with a more daring pencil, There, where her fiery race the desert ponr'd, And pale Byzantium feared Medina's sword ; When coward Asia shook in trembling woe, And bent appall'd before the Bactrian bow. The invocation to the crusaders breathes the spirit and fire of Dryden. We catch some of the echoes...