And holy zeal upon thy daughter’s mind
The truths of Islam.
Julian knit his brow,
And scowling on the insidious renegade,
He answer’d, By what reasoning my poor mind
Was from the old idolatry reclaim’d,
None better knows than Seville’s mitred chief,
Who first renouncing errors which he taught,
Led me his follower to the Prophet’s pale.
Thy lessons I repeated as I could;