IX.
"I see—I see their shadows—down the marble steps they run;
I see their daggers gleaming in the red light of the sun—
O Pedro! Pedro! save me!"—help from God nor man is nigh:
All vainly to her murderers for mercy did she cry.
"I see—I see their shadows—down the marble steps they run;
I see their daggers gleaming in the red light of the sun—
O Pedro! Pedro! save me!"—help from God nor man is nigh:
All vainly to her murderers for mercy did she cry.