The Equinox (Volume I, Number V)

ACT I SCENE: The desert. In the feregroana’, a walled well with 70 a lever. Three [fa/ms Tall grasses. The ground is uneven In the haehgronnd other palms, among which are several military chargers, held by esqnires. Around the well are Knights Templar; armed, ;!!!/?051715 Also JOCELYN, a troahaa’onri JOCELYN [sings to his !!!/”?[ : Noon slumbers softly in the palms ; The desert breezes whisper psalms ; And we who rest must rise and ride Beneath the banner cruciform That braves the Saracen and the storm, This blessed Christmastide. For we are hardy, and worn with blows And battles, And languish for our mother snows. What is the gladness of the well To us who pine for citadel, And joyous burg, and Christian feast? But we are vowed to Christ to fight For God, our honour, and our right Against the recreant East.