Lay on, soldiers of France! This day we win or die!”

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"The Jay was clear, resplenJertt shone the sun.

Each several bit of armor flamed again.

And all the trumpets of the host rang loud;

The echoing rumor, borne on the west wind.

Found out the straight defile of Roncesvalles. . .

’'The battle raged full wild and wondrously.

In wrath the Franks fought on. They thrust and hewed. And found, beneath the glittering coats of mail,

The flesh and bone. And the red blood ran down. . . Four battles did they fight, and win—the fifth Went not so well. Alas, of all the Franks Sixty alone are left, whom God has spared Till now—and dearly will they sell their lives. . ..

"And Roland, with a wild and fearful blast Winded his horn, so that his temples brake And from his mouth leapt the bright blood. And Charles Heard it, and all his soldiers, as they rode Down to sweet France through valleys far away.

And the King cried: 'It is the horn of Roland!

The Franks are fighting. .. / "

AS TW niANICBM RtA« CUARP F(}tD - mROVCH THE NARROW PASS THEY WERE ATTACKED BY WAVES Of MimtU WARRIORS EOOjOOO STRON'C. AC-COkOmC TO THE IICENO ROtAND ANDHRSMAU BAND 0» RNK3m VAt-lANTlY ENCACfD THE ENEMY IN SlVat COMBAT iHIOfTt BUT THE 0005 WERE TOO CWEAT WHEN ONIY A FEW FRANKS WERE LEFT AltVE, ROIANO AT EAST SOUNDED MB HORN SO THAT CHARUS WOUID KNOW HB PUCMT