By Colborne’s caçadores supported still.
A musket-shot below the crest full soon
Their charge doth reach, to where a craggy hill
Detached doth rise. This natural bulwark fill
The skirmishers of France, whose fusillade
Not long withstands the assailants’ vengeful will.
The bulwark’s cleared, the pathway free is made,
And up the Spaniards climb—nor ask for British aid.
XXXVII.
But from the Hermitage terrific rocks