To breathe into Pelayo’s ear a voice

Of spirit-stirring power, which like the trump

Of the Arch-angel, shall awake dead Spain.

The northern mountaineers are unsubdued;

They call upon Pelayo for their chief;

Odoar and Urban tell him that the hour

Is come. Thou too, I ween, old man, art charged

With no light errand, or thou wouldst not now

Have left the ruins of thy master’s house.

Who art thou? cried Siverian, as he search’d