As of sad seas on cavern'd shores,—

That grew into a voice that wailed,

"They come! they come! the Moors! the Moors!"

And with deep boom of atabals

And crash of cymbals and wild peal

Of battle-bugles, from its walls

An army rushed in glimmering steel.

And where it trod he saw the torch

Of conflagration stalk the skies,

And in the vanward of its march