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THE TROUBADOUR.


CANTO III.


Land of the olive and the vine,
The saint and soldier, sword and shrine!
How glorious to young Raymond's eye
Swell'd thy bold heights, spread thy clear sky,
When first he paused upon the height
Where, gather'd, lay the Christian might.
Amid a chesnut wood were raised
Their white tents, and the red cross blazed