Rollánd turns back, and searching through the field,

Has found, alas! his comrade Olivier....

He pressed him 'gainst his bosom tenderly,

And, as he could, returning to Turpin,

Stretched on a shield he lays him down among

The other knights. The Archbishop then assoils

And signs him with the holy cross. The grief

And pity were more sore than heart can bear....

Then said Rollánd:—"Fair comrade Olivier,

Son of the good Count Renier, he who held

The marches to the distant shores of Gennes;

To break a lance, to pierce a shield, the brave

To counsel, traitors to dismay and foil,

No land e'er saw a better chevalier."

Aoi.