Boast not thyself, though thine that day of shame,
Unworthy of a name!
Know, if the Spaniard in his wrath advance,
Aroused to vengeance by a nation’s cry,
Pierced by his searching lance,
Soon shalt thou expiate crime with agony,
And thine affrighted streams to ocean’s flood
An ample tribute bear of Afric’s Paynim blood.
SEBASTIAN OF PORTUGAL.
A DRAMATIC FRAGMENT.