Ere the ruddy sun be set, Pikes must shiver, javelins sing, Blade with clattering buckler meet, Hauberk crash, and helmet ring.

Henry was there magnificent in a curious suit of burnished armor; in place of his helmet-plume he wore a fox-brush ornamented with jewels, which unusual ornament afforded great matter of remark among the busybodies of both armies.

While their shaven heads were adorned with the helmet crest and eagle plume, they bore round their necks ornaments of the gayest kind.

The dazzling sunshine vanished, a wave of misty green closed above the helmet glass, hot compressed air blew about his head, and his ear-drums began to throb.

For Percy had not men yestreen To dight my men and me!" "But I hae dreamed a dreary dream, Beyond the Isle of Skye; I saw a dead man win a fight, An' I think that man was I." He belted on his gude braid-sword, And to the field he ran; But he forgot his helmet good, That should have kept his brain.

But you, whose youth and vigour should inspire Heroic warmth, and kindle martial fire, Whom burnished arms and crested helmets grace, Not flowery garlands and a painted face; Remember him to whom you stand allied: The serpent for his well of waters died.

In those thin, helmet lids we spy, Veiling mild orbs, of changeful hue, Where auburn half subsides in blue! Lord Fauconberg, canst thou divine What is the curve, or what the line, That makes this girl, like lightning, send Looks of our long lamented friend?

Of bright carnation is the web, enriched with saffron streaks, And for favors there are fluttering veils upon their helmet peaks.

His coat of mail was sword-proof by a spell of enchantment, and he wore in his helmet rowan and holly leaves; but these would all be of no avail against the power of running water.

"The lances are shivered, the helmets rust, Ah, well-a-day for the stern old days!

The second course was like the first, save that Max nearly unhorsed Calli by a marvellous helmet stroke.

* * "Make ready, gallants, for the start, Let plume from helmet sway!

But either's force was match'd till Yniol's cry "Remember that great insult done the Queen," Increased Geraint's, who heaved his blade aloft, And crack'd the helmet thro', and bit the bone And fell'd him, and set foot upon his breast And said, "Thy name?"

At these words the Chamberlain, with a hasty step that made the plume of his helmet tremble, strode up to the knacker and threw him a purse full of money.

" "I grieve for thy departure," the lady made reply, "And it needs no pledge to tell thee I am faithful till I die, But if one token thou must have, take this ere thou depart; ('Twas fashioned by these hands of mine) and keep it on thy heart!" The Moor rose in his stirrups, he took it from her hand, 'Twas a piece of lace of gold and silk shaped for a helmet band.

" And as Celinda stripped the wings which on adventure brave Sustained his flightno more shall plume above his helmet wave.

The helmet and the helmet-feather Burned like one burning flame together, As he rode down to Camelot; As often through the purple night, Below the starry clusters bright, Some bearded meteor, trailing light, Moves over still Shalott.

And, of a sudden, a shout rang out ahead; horsemen in line across the road, rifles on thigh, moved forward towards us; an officer reversed his sword, drove it whizzing into the scabbard, and spurred forward, followed by a trooper, helmet flashing in the sun.