text:  Lofty enthusiasm has unstrung his arm--devoted tenderness has subdued his heart--the passion of love in its purest form has fascinated his soul; yet even this high-toned sentiment can yield to the influences of religion; and when Tancredi after the fatal nocturnal conflict in which his sword pierced the bosom of his beloved is visited by her in his dreams and assured that she awaits him in Paradise the soul of the Crusader is aroused within him and he sets forth with ardent zeal to seek danger and death in the breach of Jerusalem