Adelgitha

The ordeal's fatal trumpet sounded,

        And sad pale Adelgitha came,

     When forth a valiant champion bounded,

        And slew the slanderer of her fame.

     She wept, delivered from her danger;

        But when he knelt to claim her glove-

     "Seek not!" she cried, "oh, gallant stranger,

        For hapless Adelgitha's love.

     For he is dead and in a foreign land

        Whose arm should now have set me free;

     And I must wear the willow garland

        For him that's dead, or false to me."

     "Nay! say not that his faith is tainted!"-

        He raised his visor.-At the sight

     She fell into his arms and fainted;

        It was indeed her one true knight!