CCLXV

Pagans are slain; the rest are put to rout

Whom Charles hath in battle overpowered.

Of Sarraguce the gates he's battered down,

For well he knows there's no defence there now;

In come his men, he occupies that town;

And all that night they lie there in their pow'r.

Fierce is that King, with 's hoary beard, and proud,

And Bramimunde hath yielded up her towers;

But ten ere great, and lesser fifty around.

Great exploits his whom the Lord God endows!

The Song of Roland · 第 261 / 288 题