Yea, side against them—such the law,

For Moor and Christian are at war”

“Then will I never quit my sire,

But here with him through every trial go,

Nor leave him though in flames below—

God help me in his fire!”

So in the South; vain every plea

’Gainst Nature’s strong fidelity;

True to the home and to the heart,

Throngs cast their lot with kith and kin,