Iberia Won; A poem descriptive of the Peninsular War / With impressions from recent visits to the battle-grounds, and copious historical and illustrative notes

by T. M. Hughes

Many a beam;

While our oars clattering

Flash through the stream!

XXVII.

Upon thy buckler, Gaul, terrific rang

Vittoria’s powerful stroke, and reeling back

Thy phantom-King to tall Pyrene sprang;

Thy shattered Army, sorrowing deep for lack

Of conquest or of guiding, fell to wrack,

By the great arm of Arthur paralyzed,