Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
France: Vols. IX–X. 1876–79.
To the Memory of Edward the Black Prince
By Sir Walter Scott (17711832)O
On Fontarabian echoes borne,
The dying hero’s call,
That told imperial Charlemagne
How Paynim sons of swarthy Spain
Had wrought his champion’s fall.
And England’s distant cliffs astounding,
Such are the notes should say
How Britain’s hope and France’s fear,
Victor of Cressy and Poitier,
In Bourdeaux dying lay.
“And let the casement be displayed,
That I may see once more
The splendor of the setting sun
Gleam on thy mirrored wave, Garonne,
And Blaye’s empurpled shore.”
His fall the dews of evening steep,
As if in sorrow shed;
So soft shall fall the trickling tear,
When England’s maids and matrons hear
Of their Black Edward dead.
Nor France nor England shall forget
The terror of my name;
And oft shall Britain’s heroes rise,
New planets in these southern skies,
Through clouds of blood and flame.”