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Is love thy subject? Let the dying swain,
To "pale Phingari's trembling light," complain^[1].
Would'st thou array thy hero in a coat?
Albania's sons will lend "the white capote^[2]."
To grace the arches of a sacred aisle,
France gives "a fleurs de lys, or a quatre feuille^[3]."

1. But others say, that on that night,
   By pale Phingari's trembling light,
   The Giaour, upon his jet black steed,
   Was seen. . . . . . .
   Giaour, 467.
   
   
2. And pensive o'er his scattered flock
   The little shepherd, in his white capote,
   Doth lean his boyish form along the rock.
   &c. &c. &c.
   Childe Har. can. ii, 51.
   
   
3. The darken'd roof, rose high aloof,
   On pillars lofty, light, and small.
   The keystone, that lock'd each ribbed aisle,
   Was a fleurs de lys, or a quatre feuille,
   Lay of the Last Minstrel, can. ii.