Duræque tellus audit Iberiæ.
Carm. iv. 14.
Singular approximation of nations whose struggles in the Peninsular War were to make so famous near twenty centuries later!
In the Peninsula I do not expect much appreciation, where even amongst those who palaver English, English poetry is not at all understood, and where once a littérateur, expressing his sham admiration of Shakspeare, spoke to me of “Macabets as one progidy of a tradegy!” I am not prepared to sacrifice to an ambition which nothing but undue praise could conciliate, and I shall be satisfied with the approval of my own countrymen, if I can only have the good fortune to secure it.
Corunna, September, 1846.
IBERIA WON.
A Poem.