Chapter 170 No.170

These drew not for their fields the sword,

Like tenants of a feudal lord,

45 Nor owned the patriarchal claim

Of Chieftain in their leader's name;

Adventurers they, from far who roved,

To live by battle which they loved.

There the Italian's clouded face,

50 The swarthy Spaniard's there you trace;

The mountain-loving Switzer t