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JOAN OF ARC.
With friendly greeting, or if foes they came 50With such array of battle as short spaceAllowed: the Warrior sped across the plain,And soon beheld the bannered lillies wave.
Their Chief was Richemont: he, when as he heardWhat rites employed the Virgin, straightway bade 55His troops assist in burial: they, tho' grievedAt late arrival, and the expected dayOf conquest past, yet give their willing aid:They dig the general grave, and thither bearEnglish or French alike commingled now! 60And heap the mound of Death.Amid the plainThere was a little eminence, of oldPiled o'er some honored Chieftain's narrow house.His praise the song had ceas'd to celebrate,And many an unknown age had the long grass 65Waved o'er the nameless mound, tho' barren nowBeneath the frequent tread of multitudes.

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