As she approach’d the Prince, the crowd made way

Respectful. The maternal smile which bore

Her greeting, from Pelayo’s heart at once

Dispell’d its boding. What he would have ask’d

She knew, and bending from her palfrey down,

Told him that they for whom he look’d were safe,

And that in secret he should hear the rest.

XV.
RODERICK AT CANGAS.

How calmly gliding through the dark-blue sky