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

Cujus animam gementem * *

Pertransivit gladius!

Antiphonar. Rom. “Stabat Mater.”

XVI. “As each the other’s head had joyous rent,
And gnawed like Ugolino.”

Quandò ebbe detto ciò, con gli occhi torti

Riprese il teschio misero co’ denti,

Che furo all’ osso, come d’un can forti.

Dante, Inferno, c. xxx.

XVII. “Of Spain’s defenders see the bayonets gleam,
And lust and plunder the defenders’ aim!”