XLVIII.Exactly how carols now the new lusty muleteer?No! when he increase, he chants ‘Viva este Rey!’And monitors his song in order to execrate Godoy,The newest regal wittol Charles, and you will curse the fresh new dayWhen very first Spain’s king beheld the black-eyed man,And gore-faced Treason sprung out of their adulterate delight.

XLIX.Into yon long peak ordinary, in the range crownedWith crags, whereon those people Moorish turrets other individuals,Greater strewn hoof-scratching dint new wounded soil;And, scathed by the flames, the greensward’s dark vestTells your foe was Andalusia’s guest:Right here is new camp, the fresh observe-flame, in addition to server,Right here the new fearless peasant stormed the newest dragon’s nest;Nonetheless does the guy mark they which have triumphant feature,And you can points to yonder high cliffs, and this oft were won and you can lost.

L.And you may whomsoe’er across the highway you meetBears inside the limit the newest badge from crimson hue,Which informs you exactly who to shun and you may who to help you allowed:Woe into child you to definitely walks in public places viewWithout from commitment this token true:Sharp is the knife, and you may sudden is the stroke;And you may sorely would this new Gallic foemen rue,In the event the slight poniards, wrapt in cloak,Could dull the brand new sabre’s border, or obvious the cannon’s tobacco cigarette.

LI.At each change Morena’s dusky heightSustains aloft this new battery’s iron load;And you will, far since the mortal eye can also be compass attention,The brand new mountain-howitzer, this new damaged highway,The fresh bristling palisade, brand new fosse o’erflowed,Brand new stationed bands, the latest never-unused watch,The magazine during the rocky durance stowed,The fresh holstered steed underneath the lost away from thatch,The ball-piled pyramid, the latest ever-blazing fits,

This lady partner sinks-she sheds zero ill-timed split;The woman chief is slain-she fills their fatal blog post;This lady fellows flee-she inspections its feet career;This new foe retires-she minds the sallying servers:Who can appease such as the girl a good partner’s ghost?

LII.Portend the fresh deeds to come:-but the guy whose nodHas tumbled feebler despots from their sway,A second pauseth ere the guy increases the fresh new rod;A tiny minute deigneth to reduce:In the future usually their legions brush as a consequence of such just how;South west need to own the latest Scourger around the globe.Ah, Spain! exactly how unfortunate would-be thy reckoning time,Whenever soars Gaul’s Vulture, along with his wings unfurled,And you can thou shalt evaluate thy sons in crowds of people to Hades hurled.

LIII.No action between entry and you may a great grave?The rise regarding rapine while the slip out-of The country of spain?And doth the advantage one to man adores ordainTheir doom, nor adhere the fresh new suppliant’s appeal?Is perhaps all you to definitely hopeless Valour serves when you look at the vain?And you will The recommendations sage, and you may patriotic Zeal,The newest veteran’s experience, youth’s flame, and manhood’s center of material?

LIV.Would it be for it the fresh new Foreign language maid, naughty,Hangs on willow the lady unstrung drums,And you can, all the unsexed, the newest anlace hath espoused,Sung brand new noisy tune, and you can dared the brand new action of battle?And she, whom because semblance out of an effective scarAppalled, an owlet’s larum chilled that have fear,Today viewpoints the latest column-scattering bayonet container,The fresh falchion thumb, and you will o’er the latest yet , warm deadStalks that have Minerva’s step in which Mars you will earthquake in order to tread.

Of like, relationship, dedication is their set,Once the whilome he was will likely not the fresh leagues to perk,Their quick bells extremely jingling in route?

LV.Ye just who will wonder after you tune in to their tale,Oh! got you identified her within her mellow hours,Noted the girl black-eye one to mocks the woman coal-black colored veil,Heard the woman light, alive tones for the lady’s bower,Seen her a lot of time hair you to definitely foil brand new seksikГ¤s Kiina-naiset painter’s stamina,Her fairy function, with well over ladies elegance,Scarce would you deem you to Saragoza’s towerBeheld their laugh inside the Danger’s Gorgon deal with,Narrow the newest signed ranking, and lead in Glory’s fearful chase.

LVI.Who’ll avenge very well a beneficial leader’s fall?Just what maid access whenever mans flushed hope is actually forgotten?Who hang thus fiercely towards the flying Gaul,Foiled from the a woman’s give, prior to a beneficial battered wall structure?

LVII.Yet are Spain’s maids no race of Amazons,But formed the witching arts out-of love:Although therefore from inside the fingers it emulate this lady sons,Plus the fresh horrid phalanx dare to move,‘Tis nevertheless the tender fierceness of the dove,Pecking brand new hands one hovers o’er her companion:When you look at the gentleness such as firmness far aboveRemoter ladies, renowned to own sickening prate;The girl mind is nobler yes, the woman appeal perchance since the great.