SIR WALTER MANNY.
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No mass has bless'd the lowly grave
Which his humblest follower made.
"I would have wander'd through every land
Where his gallant name was known,
To have pray'd a mass for the soul of the dead,
And a monumental stone.
"But I knew thy father had a son,
To whom the task would be dear:
Young knight, I kept the warrior's grave
For thee, and thou art here."
Sir Walter grasp'd the old man's hand,
But spoke he never a word;—
So still it was, that the fall of tears
On his mailed vest was heard.
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