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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=531480" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Jerusalem Delivered - Book 01 - part 03</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">XXVI<br>&quot;Turks, Persians conquered, Antiochia won,<br>Be glorious acts, and full of glorious praise,<br>By Heaven's mere grace, not by our prowess done:<br>Those conquests were achieved by wondrous ways,<br>If now from that directed course we run<br>The God of Battles thus before us lays,<br>His loving kindness shall we lose, I doubt,<br>And be a byword to the lands about.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">XXVII<br>&quot;Let not these blessings then sent from above<br>Abused be, or split in profane wise,<br>But let the issue correspondent prove<br>To good beginnings of each enterprise;<br>The gentle season might our courage move,<br>Now every passage plain and open lies:<br>What lets us then the great Jerusalem<br>With valiant squadrons round about to hem?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">XXVIII<br>&quot;Lords, I protest, and hearken all to it,<br>Ye times and ages, future, present, past,<br>Hear all ye blessed in the heavens that sit,<br>The time for this achievement hasteneth fast:<br>The longer rest worse will the season fit,<br>Our sureties shall with doubt be overcast.<br>If we forslow the siege I well foresee<br>From Egypt will the Pagans succored be.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">XXIX<br>This said, the hermit Peter rose and spake,<br>Who sate in counsel those great Lords among:<br>&quot;At my request this war was undertake,<br>In private cell, who erst lived closed long,<br>What Godfrey wills, of that no question make,<br>There cast no doubts where truth is plain and strong,<br>Your acts, I trust, will correspond his speech,<br>Yet one thing more I would you gladly teach.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">XXX<br>&quot;These strifes, unless I far mistake the thing,<br>And discords raised oft in disordered sort,<br>Your disobedience and ill managing<br>Of actions lost, for want of due support,<br>Refer I justly to a further spring,<br>Spring of sedition, strife, oppression, tort,<br>I mean commanding power to sundry given,<br>In thought, opinion, worth, estate, uneven.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">XXXI<br>&quot;Where divers Lords divided empire hold,<br>Where causes be by gifts, not justice tried,<br>Where offices be falsely bought and sold,<br>Needs must the lordship there from virtue slide.<br>Of friendly parts one body then uphold,<br>Create one head, the rest to rule and guide:<br>To one the regal power and sceptre give,<br>That henceforth may your King and Sovereign live.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">XXXII<br>And therewith stayed his speech. O gracious Muse,<br>What kindling motions in their breasts do fry?<br>With grace divine the hermit's talk infuse,<br>That in their hearts his words may fructify;<br>By this a virtuous concord they did choose,<br>And all contentions then began to die;<br>The Princes with the multitude agree,<br>That Godfrey ruler of those wars should be.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">XXXIII<br>This power they gave him, by his princely right,<br>All to command, to judge all, good and ill,<br>Laws to impose to lands subdued by might,<br>To maken war both when and where he will,<br>To hold in due subjection every wight,<br>Their valors to be guided by his skill;<br>This done, Report displays her tell-tale wings,<br>And to each ear the news and tidings brings.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">XXXIV<br>She told the soldiers, who allowed him meet<br>And well deserving of that sovereign place.<br>Their first salutes and acclamations sweet<br>Received he, with love and gentle grace;<br>After their reverence done with kind regreet<br>Requited was, with mild and cheerful face,<br>He bids his armies should the following day<br>On those fair plains their standards proud display.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">XXXV<br>The golden sun rose from the silver wave,<br>And with his beams enamelled every green,<br>When up arose each warrior bold and brave,<br>Glistering in filed steel and armor sheen,<br>With jolly plumes their crests adorned they have,<br>And all tofore their chieftain mustered been:<br>He from a mountain cast his curious sight<br>On every footman and on every knight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">XXXVI<br>My mind, Time's enemy, Oblivion's foe,<br>Disposer true of each noteworthy thing,<br>Oh, let thy virtuous might avail me so,<br>That I each troop and captain great may sing,<br>That in this glorious war did famous grow,<br>Forgot till now by Time's evil handling:<br>This work, derived from my treasures dear,<br>Let all times hearken, never age outwear.<br>XXXVII<br>The French came foremost battailous and bold,<br>Late led by Hugo, brother to their King,<br>From France the isle that rivers four infold<br>With rolling streams descending from their spring,<br>But Hugo dead, the lily fair of gold,<br>Their wonted ensign they tofore them bring,<br>Under Clotharius great, a captain good,<br>And hardy knight ysprong of princes' blood.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">XXXVIII<br>A thousand were they in strong armors clad,<br>Next whom there marched forth another band,<br>That number, nature, and instruction had,<br>Like them to fight far off or charge at hand,<br>All valiant Normans by Lord Robert lad,<br>The native Duke of that renowned land,<br>Two bishops next their standards proud upbare,<br>Called Reverend William, and Good Ademare.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">XXXIX<br>Their jolly notes they chanted loud and clear<br>On merry mornings at the mass divine,<br>And horrid helms high on their heads they bear<br>When their fierce courage they to war incline:<br>The first four hundred horsemen gathered near<br>To Orange town, and lands that it confine:<br>But Ademare the Poggian youth brought out,<br>In number like, in hard assays as stout.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">XL<br>Baldwin, his ensign fair, did next dispread<br>Among his Bulloigners of noble fame,<br>His brother gave him all his troops to lead,<br>When he commander of the field became;<br>The Count Carinto did him straight succeed,<br>Grave in advice, well skilled in Mars his game,<br>Four hundred brought he, but so many thrice<br>Led Baldwin, clad in gilden arms of price.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Torquato+Tasso">Torquato Tasso</a><div class=q>
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Be glorious acts, and full of glorious praise,
By Heaven's mere grace, not by our prowess done:
Those conquests were achieved by wondrous ways,
If now from that directed course we run
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