His sleep, sans dreaming of Siberia's wastes:

Better succumb even to their own despair,

And drive the Camel—than purvey the Bear.

VII.

But not alone within the hoariest clime

Where Freedom dates her birth with that of Time,

And not alone where, plunged in night, a crowd

Of Incas darken to a dubious cloud[eb],

The dawn revives: renowned, romantic Spain

Holds back the invader from her soil again.