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sepulch

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within a

ace, while day

otten dead at

their chief

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of sword

r thrills like

ay'st!-This is

with la

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l, paroc

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mn lightn

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n step show lik

and pierces

the gen

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or lus

earn to kiss th

own, life-weari

hey quit

rr'd, how changed

so late

s, with sails o

neable with

d from sho

reaming to th

heir sun-

drons close in

ay-star's blazing

h excess

nd-clouds the blu

like fire

the thatcher

art remember'd

k on dyi

er fresh fields

-embower

ce that was th

ught his fight

fe's long

he green, gree

his nich

mid his kinsfol

ssage through

and S

on-Heart o'er

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the tideless

w the vast I

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st knigh

only of pur

gth of the Crusaders. They suffered terribly in the wilderness of Mount Carmel, and when at last preparing to march on Jerusalem (1192) were recalled to Ascalon. Richard now advanced to Bethany, but was unable to reach the Holy City. The

f the Holy Sepulchre was built by th

n forms the subject of one o

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n on the

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lance o'er Gr

ing throug

cried, 'I k

thousand g

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strength

fell on him

ter yes

his captur

ts but to

d! for Mor

the rearw

at parted s

ed them

dead,' he thi

is liv

ve mercy on

ies are

and Henry,

eir bowme

n well! But

the skill t

s cause, and E

we fight

then, and

n has roo

to face, and

with swo

rn courage

m field w

ills! O s

he vall

ulness rebu

on bloo

as then for

at long dr

'mid his f

ke an ir

the winds and

unmoved,

raged the in

rd and

im in the n

cross comr

y gashings,

on all th

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the charg

n threefold

ose devo

e light of E

d's love w

saw his g

n blood b

huge two-h

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and lost

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nd wept b

e) I have almost literally followed Prothero's Life. The struggle, like o

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fon, thine oa

ember are wind

the stream in

f a land ebbs

sceptre for c

ke the ripple, u

lance, and the

raw's halls and

winter and C

Builth when from

d Frankton an

awares by the f

he shadow beneat

n Saharan high

alm-tree, nor he

ned foe panting

unarm'd, unaw

is morning, when

long sought, tak

he breeze the los

daughter's sweet

s out, as the d

first sunshine and

Maesmynan in

eart's-blood as f

ose freedom was

reen vales of th

rs' kingdom, he

age of stark E

enge on a ki

wrought on th

of doom; the sco

ri and Owain aw

silence: one fl

hat passes wafts

f Llywelyn, the n

t sees the whit

December fall se

irge whispers on

t hills gather rou

under Edward I; and, considering the vast preponderance of weight against the Welsh Prince it could n

nce of the royal line of Gywnedd f

r Snowdon. The bird has been seen in

diment arising from the jealousy of Edward I, she and Llywelyn were married in 1278. But

Flintshire; where Llywely

traced from Caradoc-Caractacus. But the accepted genealogy of the Princes of Gwynedd beg

at Rhuddlan, who, with a barbarity unworthy of himself, set it over the Tower of London, wreathe

the other Welsh principalities, Powys and Dinefawr; Owain Gwynedd, (1

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