Should Roderick have been found: by this sure mark

Ye should have known him, if nought else remain’d,

That his whole body had been gored with wounds,

And quill’d with spears, as if the Moors had felt

That in his single life the victory lay,

More than in all the host!

Siverian’s eyes

Shone with a youthful ardour while he spake,

His gathering brow grew stern, and as he raised

His arm, a warrior’s impulse character’d