With sight of safety. Hundreds strew the floor

Crushed, bruised, and trampled. O’er the weak the strong

Unpitying stride, and dying shrieks the wrong

With vain reproof attest of selfish man.

But Carlos bore like Hercules along

His Isidor with strength that all outran;

Grasped Isabel his waist—the outer wall they scan.

XXV.

“Now had I known,” the grave Salustian cried,