Its glad accomplishment,.. that Roderick lived,
And might in glory take the field once more
For Spain.... I see thou startest at the thought!
Yet spurn it not with hasty unbelief,
As though ’twere utterly beyond the scope
Of possible contingency. I think
That I have calmly satisfied myself
How this is more than idle fancy, more
Than mere imaginations of a mind
Which from its wishes builds a baseless faith.