Cozenza; A Tale of Italy, and Other Poems (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 Excerpt: ...wrote in the reign of the Emperor Arnulphus. about seventy years after the death of Charles. In the dells of the Pyrenees, is yet shown a flower called the Casque de Roland; and a steep and rugged defile in the Crest of the mountain is pointed out as the "Breche de Roland." Here, also, in the last century, stood a small chapel, in the immediate nei.hborhood of Roncesvalles, which tradition affirms to be the resting place, of the chiefs, who, together with Roland, comprising in all thirty knights of the Palace, fell victims to that memorable and treacherous the attack of the Gascons. Thirty tombs wilLout inscriptions were to be seen in the vicinity; and a quantity of bones was shown in a cave under the chapel. I have retained the precise identity of this spot, though three others in the locality are pointed out and severally claimed as the burial place of Roland. What earth is specially incorporated with the clay of the hero matters not, and is probably unknown. "Thy crumbling Arch yet stands, O Rolandseck; Far up the rocky steep, of Drachenfels; There thrills the music of the streams that break Their broad paths down to where the blue Rhine swells." Page 137.--Stanza I, HY crumbling arch yet stands, O Eolandseck Far up the rocky steep of Drachenfels; There thrills the music of the streams that break Their broad paths down to where the blue Rhine swells. Cold are the craters of thy centuries Where Palatines have marched, thy paths are peace; And thy green willows are yet dense in dells, Whence Charlemagne's gold banners and bright shields Went forth to glorious strife on Syrian fields. n. Fire-born the lava of thy seven heights Along the river castled turrets rise; There clings the ivy on the tinted blights, Soundless and luminous in e...