XLIX.

But from those hills the radiance of her smile

Hath vanish’d long, her step hath fled afar;

O’er Suli’s frowning rocks she paused a while,[33]

Kindling the watch-fires of the mountain war.

And brightly glow’d her ardent spirit there,

Still brightest midst privation: o’er distress

It cast romantic splendour, and despair

But fann’d that beacon of the wilderness;

And rude ravine, and precipice, and dell

Sent their deep echoes forth, her rallying voice to swell.