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Alas, how many hours and years have past,

Since human forms have round this table sate,

Or lalea pass'd

Stillo'er us, in the lofty void

Of these dark arches, like the ling'ring voices

Of those who long within their graves have slept

Orra, a Tragedy

While thesein behalf of Cedric and his companions,

the armed men by who towards the place of security, where they intended to imprison

them But darkness came on fast, and the paths of the wood seemed but

imperfectly known to thehalts, and once or twice to return on their road to resume the

direction which they wished to pursue The summer morn had dawned upon

them ere they could travel in full assurance that they held the right

path But confidence returned with light, and the cavalcade now ue took place between

the two leaders of the banditti

"It is time thou shouldst leave us, Sir Maurice," said the Templar to

De Bracy, "in order to prepare the second part of thy ht Deliverer"