Shall take her name illustrious!... what, those walls

Where Mumadona one day will erect

Convent and town and towers, which shall become

The cradle of that famous monarchy!

What joy might these prophetic scenes have given, ...

What ample vengeance on the Musselman,

Driven out with foul defeat, and made to feel

In Africa the wrongs he wrought to Spain;

And still pursued by that relentless sword,

Even to the farthest Orient, where his power