Placed them within the cistern, and restored
With careful collocation its dear form, ...
So might the waters, like a crystal shrine,
Preserve it from pollution. Kneeling then,
O’er the memorial of redeeming love
He bent, and mingled with the fount his tears,
And pour’d his spirit to the Crucified.
A Moor came by, and seeing him, exclaim’d,
Ah, Kaffer! worshipper of wood and stone,
God’s curse confound thee! And as Roderick turn’d