The author of the beautiful lines which are quoted by your correspondent
X. Y. Z., is Campbell, not Mrs. Hemans. The poet, in the fifth stanza of
his ballad, tells how the unfortunate Roland, on finding that Hildegund had
taken the veil, was accustomed to sit at his window, and "sad and oft" to
look "on the mansion of his love below."
"There's yet one window of that pile,
Which he built above the nun's green isle;
Thence sad and oft look'd he
(When the chant and organ sounded slow)
On the mansion of his love below,
For herself he might not see.
"She died! He sought the battle plain,
Her image fill'd his dying brain,
When he fell and wish'd to fall;
And her name was in his latest sigh,
When Roland, the flower of chivalry,
Expired at Roncevall."