Silent Pelayo stood! recovering then,
Lord God, resign’d he cried, thy will be done!
XIV.
THE RESCUE.
Count, said Pelayo, Nature hath assign’d
Two sovereign remedies for human grief;
Religion, surest, firmest, first and best,
Strength to the weak and to the wounded balm;
And strenuous action next. Think not I came
With unprovided heart. My noble wife,