The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott, with memoir of the author.

194 THE LAY OF [CANTO V I.
And his the bard's immortal name,
And his was love, exalted high
By all the glow of chivalry.
XIV.
They sought, together, climes afar,
And oft, within some olive grove,
When even came with twinkling star,
They sung of Surrey's absent love.
His step the Italian peasant stay'd,
And deem'd, that spirits from on high,
Round where some hermit saint was laid,
Were breathing heavenly melody;
So sweet did harp and voice combine,'
To praise the name of Geraldine.
XV.
Fitztraver! 0 what tongue may say
The pangs thy faithful bosom knew,
When Surrey, of the deathless lay,
Ungrateful Tudor's sentence slew?
Regardless of the tyrant's frown,
His harp call'd wrath and vengeance down.
He left, for Naworth's iron towers,
Windsor's green glades, and courtly bowers,
And faithful to his patron's name,
With Howard still Fitztraver came;
Lord William's foremost favourite he,
And chief of all his minstrelsy.
1 [First Edit.-" So sweet their harp and voices join."]