The Song of Roland
John O''Hagan
John O''Hagan. Ye shall see the host of the Franks disband And hie them back into France their land; Each to his home as beseemeth well, And Karl unto Aix — to his own Chapelle. He will hold high feast on Saint Michael''s day And the time of your tryst shall pass away. Taie nor tidings of us shall be; Fiery and sudden, I know, is he: He will smite off the heads of our hostages all: Better, I say, that their heads should fall Than we the fair land of Spain forego, And our lives be laden with ...