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Young and great hearted, went he forth to dare / Death on the field of honour; all he sought, / Was leave to lay life down a thing of naught / And spill its hopes and promise on the air.
Then lest vile foes should vaunt a spoil so rare / The sun that loved him gave a kiss death-fraught / Quenching the heaven-enkindled fire that wrought / Fair fancies, bodied forth in words more fair, / And lit the dreaming beauty of his face / With tender mirth and strength-begetting trust, -- / Impotent strength, and mirth that might not save.