Spain is our common parent: let the sons
Be to the parent true, and in her strength
And Heaven, their sure deliverance they will find.
XVII.
RODERICK AND SIVERIAN.
O holiest Mary, Maid and Mother! thou
In Covadonga, at thy rocky shrine,
Hast witness’d whatsoe’er of human bliss
Heart can conceive most perfect! Faithful love,
Long crost by envious stars, hath there attain’d