And Tagus bends his sickle round the scene

Of Roderick’s fall; from rich Rioja’s fields;

Dark Ebro’s shores; the walls of Salduba,

Seat of the Sedetanians old, by Rome

Cæsarian and August denominate,

Now Zaragoza, in this later time

Above all cities of the earth renown’d

For duty perfectly perform’d; ... East, West

And South, where’er their gather’d multitudes

Urged by the speed of vigorous tyranny,