Chapter CXXIX

Whoever could this fight describe? Rolland
And Olivier vie with Turpin in skill
And glorious deeds--The slain can counted be;
In charts and briefs their numbers are enrolled:
More than four thousand fell, so says the Geste.
Four times the French arms were victorious,
But on the fifth, a cruel fate they met;
The knights of France found there a grave, except
Three more whose lives God saved; yet those brave knights,
Ere falling, their last breath will dearly sell.
Aoi.

THE HORN.