[52] Constantinople, Vol. I, p. 403 (by E. A. Grosvenor, Boston, 1895).
[53] This tragic event is vividly pictured by the poet Shelley when in his lyrical drama, Hellas, he sings:
A chasm
As of two mountains, in the wall of Stamboul;
And in that ghastly breach the Islamites,
Like giants on the ruins of a world,
Stand in the light of sunrise. In the dust
Glimmers a kingless diadem, and one
Of regal part has cast himself beneath
The stream of war. Another proudly clad