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Charles Kingsley - The Knight`s Leap: A Legend of AltenarCharles Kingsley - The Knight`s Leap: A Legend of Altenar
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`So the foemen have fired the gate, men of mine; And the water is spent and gone? Then bring me a cup of the red Ahr-wine: I never shall drink but this one. `And reach me my harness, and saddle my horse, And lead him me round to the door: He must take such a leap to-night perforce, As horse never took before. `I have fought my fight, I have lived my life, I have drunk my share of wine; From Trier to Coln there was never a knight Led a merrier life than mine. `I have lived by the saddle for years two score; And if I must die on tree, Then the old saddle tree, which has borne me of yore, Is the properest timber for me. `So now to show bishop, and burgher, and priest, How the Altenahr hawk can die: If they smoke the old falcon out of his nest, He must take to his wings and fly.` He harnessed himself by the clear moonshine, And he mounted his horse at the door; And he drained such a cup of the red Ahr-wine, As man never drained before. He spurred the old horse, and he held him tight, And he leapt him out over the wall; Out over the cliff, out into the night, Three hundred feet of fall. They found him next morning below in the glen, With never a bone in him whole— A mass or a prayer, now, good gentlemen, For such a bold rider`s soul. Eversley, 1864.
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