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A TALE OF FARGEAU.

Unless speedily

Thou canst return to us our bones.

"Dost thou remember how, years ago,

Thou crossedst the Rhine one wintry night,

When the fierce wind howled and waves dashed high, -

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When waves dashed high

Toward the lowering sky,

To meet a rival in mortal fight?

"Dost thou remember that fatal fray,

How, at the last, Count Robert fell

Struck to the heart, and how away

Toward the skiff

Thou fled'st, as if

Already chased by fiends from hell?

"Dost thou remember, recreant knight,

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