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

IBERIA WON.

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Canto VI.

I.

Upon the Chofre stood the dauntless Graham,

And marked the slaughter with determined eye,

Sad yet unshrinking—poured then forth of flame

A torrent hissing red athwart the sky.

Close o’er the stormers’ heads the missiles fly,

The stone-ribbed curtain into fragments hurled—