Shall thence draw strength for all things; till the God
Whose hand around her hath unpeopled earth,
Looking upon her still and chasten’d soul,
Call it once more to thine!
(To the Castilians.) Awake, I say!
Tambour and trumpet, wake! And let the land
Through all her mountains hear your funeral peal.
—So should a hero pass to his repose.
[Exeunt omnes.
[284] This circumstance is recorded of King Don Alfonso, the last of that name. He sent to the Cid’s tomb for the cross which that warrior was accustomed to wear upon his breast when he went to battle, and had it made into one for himself, “because of the faith which he had, that through it he should obtain the victory.”—Southey’s Chronicle of the Cid.