His Guerrilleros ’neath that Chief adored

’Gainst the marauding Gaul have battled well.

And at Baigorri hark where grandly swell

The war-notes of Castile, while rush the wild

Partidas ringing many a Norman’s knell;

And sweep from France the forage she hath piled

On Spanish soil profaned, from stall and sheepfold mild.

IV.

Unconsciously the lowing herds resent

Their change of masters, rudely by the horn