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Rough English lyrics (originally in Old French/Medieval Frankish, which was altered greatly due to the French Revolution and turned into modern French):

Still will I sing to soothe my heart,
Deprest, alas! and full of care;
Not even yet shall hope depart—
Not even yet will I despair.
Though none from that wild shore return
Where he abides I love so well,
Whose absence I forever mourn,
Whose voice to me was music’s spell;
God! when the battle cry resounds,
Thy succour to the Pilgrim show,
Whom fatal treachery surrounds—
For faithless is the Heathen foe!

No time my sorrow can assuage
Till I behold him once again;
He roams in weary pilgrimage,
And I await in ceaseless pain:
And though my lineage urge me long
With threats another’s bride to be,
In vain they seek to do him wrong—
All idle seem their frowns to me.
Noble he is, and I am fair;
Ah, Heaven! all mercy since thou art,
Why doom two hearts to this despair,
Why bid us thus so rudely part?

One tender solace yet I find—
His vows are mine, my treasured store!
And when I feel the gentle wind
That blows from yonder distant shore,
I turn me to the balmy gale,
Its whisp’ring breath my fancy charms,
I list his tender voice to hail,
He seems to clasp me in his arms!

He left me! ah, what vain regret!
I may not follow where he flies!—
The scarf he gave, when last we met,
A cherished relic still I prize:
I fold it to my throbbing heart,
And many a vanish’d scene recall;
For quiet to my soul distrest,
For joy, for solace—this is all!
God! when the battle cry resounds,
Thy succour to the Pilgrim show,
Whom fatal treachery surrounds,
For faithless is the Heathen foe!


From the extended soundtrack of Kingdom of Heaven.

Picture is a depiction of King Baldwin IV (4th), king of the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. Baldwin IV is also known as The Leper King, and he wears a mask and is fully wrapped and clothed because of his leprosy. Shortly after his death the city of Jerusalem fell to the Ayyubid Sultanate led by Saladin (leading to the famous Third Crusade), and the local powerhouse that was the Kingdom of Jerusalem would lose almost all of it's power, struggling to survive until the country's exodus to Cyprus and their eventual conquest by Venetian, Ottoman, then British forces.

Picture: http://img04.deviantart.net/11da/i/20...

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