Excerpt from The Cid Ballads, Vol. 2: And Other Poems and Translations From Spanish and GermanGod send thee soon a manly beard, and manly strength to wield A sword that like Orlando's wins honour in the field, Thy father's death thou must avenge, thou, son, and not another, A traitor pierced him to the heart, that he might wed thy mother.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.