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

XXVII.

“Nor dauntless Manuela be unsung,

Who when her townsmen from the battery fled,

With burning linstock to the rampart sprung,

And mounting on the cannon vowed till dead

Ne’er through the siege to leave its Gorgon head.

Penthesiléa not more beautiful!

Nor thou, Burita, sprung from noblest bed,

And delicate as fair—of courage full—