• The Maid who binds her warrior’s sash
      With smile that well her pain dissembles,
    The while beneath her drooping lash
      One starry tear-drop hangs and trembles,
    Though Heaven alone records the tear,
      And Fame shall never know her story,
    Her heart has shed a drop as dear
      As e’er bedewed the field of glory!

    The wife who girds...