I picture her there in the quaint old room,
Where the fading fire-light starts and falls,
Alone in the twilight's tender gloom
...
The wintry blast goes wailing by,
The snow is falling overhead;
I hear the lonely sentry's tread,
And distant watch-fires light the sky.
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What shall we say now of our knight,
Or how express the measure of our woe
For him who rode the foremost in the fight,
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