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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=540140" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Horn Of Egremont Castle</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">ERE the Brothers through the gateway<br>Issued forth with old and young,<br>To the Horn Sir Eustace pointed<br>Which for ages there had hung.<br>Horn it was which none could sound,<br>No one upon living ground,<br>Save He who came as rightful Heir<br>To Egremont's Domains and Castle fair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Heirs from times of earliest record<br>Had the House of Lucie born, <br>Who of right had held the Lordship<br>Claimed by proof upon the Horn:<br>Each at the appointed hour<br>Tried the Horn,--it owned his power;<br>He was acknowledged: and the blast,<br>Which good Sir Eustace sounded, was the last.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With his lance Sir Eustace pointed,<br>And to Hubert thus said he,<br>'What I speak this Horn shall witness<br>For thy better memory. <br>Hear, then, and neglect me not!<br>At this time, and on this spot,<br>The words are uttered from my heart,<br>As my last earnest prayer ere we depart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'On good service we are going<br>Life to risk by sea and land,<br>In which course if Christ our Saviour<br>Do my sinful soul demand,<br>Hither come thou back straightway,<br>Hubert, if alive that day; <br>Return, and sound the Horn, that we<br>May have a living House still left in thee!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Fear not,' quickly answered Hubert;<br>'As I am thy Father's son,<br>What thou askest, noble Brother,<br>With God's favour shall be done.'<br>So were both right well content:<br>Forth they from the Castle went,<br>And at the head of their Array<br>To Palestine the Brothers took their way. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Side by side they fought (the Lucies<br>Were a line for valour famed),<br>And where'er their strokes alighted,<br>There the Saracens were tamed.<br>Whence, then, could it come--the thought--<br>By what evil spirit brought?<br>Oh! can a brave Man wish to take<br>His Brother's life, for Lands' and Castle's sake?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Sir!' the Ruffians said to Hubert,<br>'Deep he lies in Jordan flood.' <br>Stricken by this ill assurance,<br>Pale and trembling Hubert stood.<br>'Take your earnings.'--Oh! that I<br>Could have 'seen' my Brother die!<br>It was a pang that vexed him then;<br>And oft returned, again, and yet again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Months passed on, and no Sir Eustace!<br>Nor of him were tidings heard;<br>Wherefore, bold as day, the Murderer<br>Back again to England steered. <br>To his Castle Hubert sped;<br>Nothing has he now to dread.<br>But silent and by stealth he came,<br>And at an hour which nobody could name.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">None could tell if it were night-time,<br>Night or day, at even or morn;<br>No one's eye had seen him enter,<br>No one's ear had heard the Horn.<br>But bold Hubert lives in glee:<br>Months and years went smilingly; <br>With plenty was his table spread;<br>And bright the Lady is who shares his bed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Likewise he had sons and daughters;<br>And, as good men do, he sate<br>At his board by these surrounded,<br>Flourishing in fair estate.<br>And while thus in open day<br>Once he sate, as old books say,<br>A blast was uttered from the Horn,<br>Where by the Castle-gate it hung forlorn. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Tis the breath of good Sir Eustace!<br>He is come to claim his right:<br>Ancient castle, woods, and mountains<br>Hear the challenge with delight.<br>Hubert! though the blast be blown<br>He is helpless and alone:<br>Thou hast a dungeon, speak the word!<br>And there he may be lodged, and thou be Lord.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Speak!--astounded Hubert cannot;<br>And, if power to speak he had, <br>All are daunted, all the household<br>Smitten to the heart, and sad.<br>'Tis Sir Eustace; if it be<br>Living man, it must be he!<br>Thus Hubert thought in his dismay,<br>And by a postern-gate he slunk away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Long, and long was he unheard of:<br>To his Brother then he came,<br>Made confession, asked forgiveness,<br>Asked it by a brother's name, <br>And by all the saints in heaven;<br>And of Eustace was forgiven:<br>Then in a convent went to hide<br>His melancholy head, and there he died.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But Sir Eustace, whom good angels<br>Had preserved from murderers' hands,<br>And from Pagan chains had rescued,<br>Lived with honour on his lands.<br>Sons he had, saw sons of theirs:<br>And through ages, heirs of heirs, <br>A long posterity renowned,<br>Sounded the Horn which they alone could sound.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Wordsworth">William Wordsworth</a><div class=q>
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Issued forth with old and young,
To the Horn Sir Eustace pointed
Which for ages there had hung.
Horn it was which none could sound,
No one upon living ground,
Save He who came as rightful Heir
To Egremont's Dom..."></div>
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