Chapter 132 No.132

The monarch's form was middle size:

For feat of strength or exercise

Shaped in proportion fair;

And hazel was his eagle eye,

And auburn of the darkest dye

His short curled beard and hair.

Light was his footstep in the dance,

And firm his stirrup in the lists:

And, oh! he had that merry glance

That seldom lady's heart resi