XXVI.
“Glorious resistance! See—the French recede;
To far Pamplona o’er the plain they pass.
Heroic town! not vainly thou dost bleed,
For thou art free, though all one bruiséd mass.
No monument of marble or of brass
Can rival, sufferer, thy eternal fame!
Nor ’mongst thy patriots be forgotten Sass,
The hero-priest who to the dying came
Now with the Host, and now against the foe took aim!