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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=531491" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Jerusalem Delivered - Book 02 - part 07</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">LXXXVI<br>"But if our sins us of his help deprive,<br>Of his high justice let no mercy fall;<br>Yet should our deaths us some contentment give,<br>To die, where Christ received his burial,<br>So might we die, not envying them that live;<br>So would we die, not unrevenged all:<br>Nor Turks, nor Christians, if we perish such,<br>Have cause to joy, or to complain too much.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">LXXXVII<br>"Think not that wars we love, and strife affect,<br>Or that we hate sweet peace, or rest denay,<br>Think not your sovereign's friendship we reject,<br>Because we list not in our conquests stay:<br>But for it seems he would the Jews protect,<br>Pray him from us that thought aside to lay,<br>Nor us forbid this town and realm to gain,<br>And he in peace, rest, joy, long more may reign."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">LXXXVIII<br>This answer given, Argantes wild drew nar,<br>Trembling for ire, and waxing pale for rage,<br>Nor could he hold, his wrath increased so far,<br>But thus inflamed bespake the captain sage:<br>"Who scorneth peace shall have his fill of war,<br>I thought my wisdom should thy fury 'suage,<br>But well you show what joy you take in fight,<br>Which makes you prize our love and friendship light."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">LXXXIX<br>This said, he took his mantle's foremost part,<br>And gan the same together fold and wrap;<br>Then spake again with fell and spiteful heart,<br>So lions roar enclosed in train or trap,<br>"Thou proud despiser of inconstant mart,<br>I bring thee war and peace closed in this lap,<br>Take quickly one, thou hast no time to muse;<br>If peace, we rest, we fight, if war thou choose."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">XC<br>His semblance fierce and speechless proud, provoke<br>The soldiers all, "War, war," at once to cry,<br>Nor could they tarry till their chieftain spoke,<br>But for the knight was more inflamed hereby,<br>His lap he opened and spread forth his cloak:<br>"To mortal wars," he says, "I you defy;"<br>And this he uttered with fell rage and hate,<br>And seemed of Janus' church to undo the gate.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">XCI<br>It seemed fury, discord, madness fell<br>Flew from his lap, when he unfolds the same;<br>His glaring eyes with anger's venom swell,<br>And like the brand of foul Alecto flame,<br>He looked like huge Tiphoius loosed from hell<br>Again to shake heaven's everlasting frame,<br>Or him that built the tower of Shinaar,<br>Which threat'neth battle 'gainst the morning star.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">XCII<br>Godfredo then: "Depart, and bid your king<br>Haste hitherward, or else within short while, --<br>For gladly we accept the war you bring, --<br>Let him expect us on the banks of Nile."<br>He entertained them then with banqueting,<br>And gifts presented to those Pagans vile;<br>Aletes had a helmet, rich and gay,<br>Late found at Nice among the conquered prey.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">XCIII<br>Argant a sword, whereof the web was steel,<br>Pommel, rich stone; hilt gold; approved by touch<br>With rarest workmanship all forged weel,<br>The curious art excelled the substance much:<br>Thus fair, rich, sharp, to see, to have, to feel,<br>Glad was the Paynim to enjoy it such,<br>And said, "How I this gift can use and wield,<br>Soon shall you see, when first we meet in field."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">XCIV<br>Thus took they congee, and the angry knight<br>Thus to his fellow parleyed on the way,<br>"Go thou by day, but let me walk by night,<br>Go thou to Egypt, I at Sion stay,<br>The answer given thou canst unfold aright,<br>No need of me, what I can do or say,<br>Among these arms I will go wreak my spite;<br>Let Paris court it, Hector loved to fight."</div><div style="margin:10px 0">XCV<br>Thus he who late arrived a messenger<br>Departs a foe, in act, in word, in thought,<br>The law of nations or the lore of war,<br>If he transgresses or no, he recketh naught,<br>Thus parted they, and ere he wandered far<br>The friendly star-light to the walls him brought:<br>Yet his fell heart thought long that little way,<br>Grieved with each stop, tormented with each stay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">XCVI<br>Now spread the night her spangled canopy,<br>And summoned every restless eye to sleep;<br>On beds of tender grass the beasts down lie,<br>The fishes slumbered in the silent deep,<br>Unheard were serpent's hiss and dragon's cry,<br>Birds left to sing, and Philomen to weep,<br>Only that noise heaven's rolling circles kest,<br>Sung lullaby to bring the world to rest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">XCVII<br>Yet neither sleep, nor ease, nor shadows dark,<br>Could make the faithful camp or captain rest,<br>They longed to see the day, to hear the lark<br>Record her hymns and chant her carols blest,<br>They yearned to view the walls, the wished mark<br>To which their journeys long they had addressed;<br>Each heart attends, each longing eye beholds<br>What beam the eastern window first unfolds.</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> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=531491" data-title="Jerusalem Delivered - Book 02 - part 07 de Torquato Tasso" data-description="LXXXVI "But if our sins us of his help deprive, Of his high justice let no mercy fall; 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