The Song of Roland - Charles Scott Moncrieff

Excerpt from The Song of Roland: Done Into English, in the Original Measure
Tub'at higtl: note of, the forlorn hope, of a.host.at bay and a attle against odds Without end is the note on which the great French fiends. I know nothing more movmg in poetry that strange and unexpected endm that splendidl incon elusive conclusion Clg'larlema e the hristian emperor has at last established '3 empire in quiet; has done justice almost in the manner Of a day Of jud ement, and sleeps as it were u on his throne with a peace almost like that of aradise. And there appears to him the angel of God crying aloud that his arms are needed in a new and distant land, and that he must take up again the endless march of his days. And the great kin tears his long white beard and cries out against '8 restless life. The poem ends, as it were with a vision and vista of wars against the barbarians and the vision is true. For that war is never ended, which defends the sani of the world against all the stark anar chies an tending negations which rage against it for ever. That war is never finished in this world and the rass has hardl grown on the graves of our own riends who fel in it.
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