And yet to brown Iola's eye,

He seemed the lord of lady's sigh.

Gonzalo seen, her thought, her dream,

With fancy's love-fraught visions teem.

She deemed that orb of glorious fire,

To which her country's souls aspire,

That crimson god whose glowing face

Illumines all the mortal race:

She deemed his glory, only, vied

With brave Gonzalo's matchless pride.