Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich / [by Thomas Bailey Aldrich] [electronic text]
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Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich / [by Thomas Bailey Aldrich] [electronic text]
Author
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907
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Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company
1885
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SCENE II.
LYRICAL INTERLUDE.
SOLDIERS' SONG.
While this is being sung behind the scenes the guard is relieved on the cliffs, Louvois wraps his cloak around him and falls into a troubled sleep.
THE camp is hushed; the fires burn low; Like ghosts the sentries come and go: Now seen, now lost, upon the height
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A keen drawn sabre glimmers white.Swiftly the midnight steals away — Reposez-vous, bons chevaliers!
Perchance into your dream shall come Visions of love or thoughts of home; The furtive night wind, hurrying by, Shall kiss away the half-breathed sigh, And softly whispering, seem to say, Reposez-vous, bons chevaliers!
Through star-lit dusk and shimmering dew It is your lady comes to you! Delphine, Lisette, Annette—who knows By what sweet wayward name she goes? Wrapped in white arms till break of day, Reposez-vous, bons chevaliers!
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