“If e’er thy charms these rabid dogs should meet.
“Por Díos, with steel I will the monsters greet!”
With many a gentle word and heavenly smile
Replied his Isidora, angel-sweet.
Now fell the night, and blazed full many a pile,
And Charles for his adored a shelter sought the while.
XX.
To Santiago’s shrine Don Carlos bore
Salustian and his daughters pale with dread.
A mighty crowd hath filled with life the floor,