Then rising from the earth, she spread her arms,

And looking round with sweeping eyes exclaim’d,

Auria, and Spain, and Heaven receive the vow!

IV.
THE MONASTERY OF ST. FELIX.

Thus long had Roderick heard her powerful words

In silence, awed before her; but his heart

Was fill’d the while with swelling sympathy,

And now with impulse not to be restrain’d

The feeling overpower’d him. Hear me too,