Ride arrow-wounded. And the city catch

Wild tumult from his coming, wilder fear—

A cry before him and a wail behind,

Of walls beleaguered; ravin; conquered kings:

Triumphant Taric; shackled Spain—revenge.

And I, a Moslem slave, a miser Jew's,

Housed near the Tagus—squalid and alone,

Save for his slave,—a dog he beat and starved,—

Leaner than my lank shadow when the moon,

A battle beacon, westerns; all my bones