Stand faint and breathless, but undaunted yet.

Brave Aben-Zurrahs, on! one effort more,

Yours is the triumph, and the conflict o’er.

But lo! descending o’er the darken’d hall,

The twilight-shadows fast and deeply fall,

Nor yet the strife hath ceased—though scarce they know,

Through that thick gloom, the brother from the foe;

Till the moon rises with her cloudless ray,

The peaceful moon, and gives them light to slay.

Where lurks Abdallah?—midst his yielding train