Is roused to energies that yet might save—
E’en now, enthusiasts! while ye rush to claim
Your glorious trial on the field of fame,
Your king hath yielded! Valour’s dream is o’er;[86]
Power, wealth, and freedom are your own no more;
And for your children’s portion, but remains
That bitter heritage—the stranger’s chains.
[72] Garcilaso de la Vega derived his surname from a single combat (in which he was the victor) with a Moor, on the Vega of Granada.
[73] “El Rey D. Fernando bolviò à la Vega, y pusò su Real à la vista de Huecar, a veyute y seys dias del mes de Abril, adonde fuè fortificado de todo lo necessario; poniendo el Christiano toda su gente en esquadron, con todas sus vanderas tendidas, y su Real Estandarte, el qual llevava por divisa un Christo crucificado.”—Historia de las Guerras Civiles de Granada.
[74] Andalusia signifies, in Arabic, the region of the evening or the west; in a word, the Hesperia of the Greeks.—See Casiri’s Bibliot. Arabico-Hispana, and Gibbon’s Decline and Fall, &c.