Alonzo the brave, and fair Imogine

A warrior so bold, and a virgin so bright

Conversed, as they sat on the green:

They gazed on each other with tender delight;

Alonzo the brave was the name of the knight,

The maid’s was the fair Imogine.

“And oh!” said the youth, “since tomorrow I go

To fight in a far distant land,

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