With the tambour-peal and the tecbir-shout,
And the horn o’er the blue seas ringing out,
He hath marshall’d his dark array!
Ximena enters, followed by the Citizens, with the Banner.
Xim. Is it too late?—My father, these are men
Through life and death prepared to follow thee
Beneath this banner! Is their zeal too late?
—Oh! there’s a fearful history on thy brow!
What hast thou seen?
Gar. It is not all too late.