And, circling all with arms, that turban’d race—

The sun, the desert, stamp’d in each dark haughty face.

XXII.

Shout, ye seven hills! Lo! Christian pennons streaming

Red o’er the waters![210] Hail, deliverers, hail!

Along your billowy wake the radiance gleaming,

Is Hope’s own smile! They crowd the swelling sail,

On, with the foam, the sunbeam and the gale,

Borne, as a victor’s car! The batteries pour

Their clouds and thunders; but the rolling veil