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

The Hermitage upon the mountain’s head

Is thick with arméd men,—though Fate should wrong,

Full stern resolved the contest to prolong.

By others not less fierce are held his flanks;

To Sarre and to Ascain extends the throng.

A lower ridge the greater Rhune embanks,

And this too bristles o’er with Gallia’s hostile ranks.

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Now—now the Andaluzes scale the Rhune,