Pelayo, when he saw

Those glittering sources and their sacred cave,

Took from his side the bugle silver-tipt,

And with a breath long drawn and slow expired

Sent forth that strain, which, echoing from the walls

Of Cangas, wont to tell his glad return.

When from the chace he came. At the first sound

Favila started in the cave, and cried,

My father’s horn!... A sudden flush suffused

Hermesind’s cheek, and she with quicken’d eye