Rose softly sad and low from distance borne

A plaintive strain that in its dying flight

Fell on the town where other breasts are torn.

’Tis thus in chorus sweet they raise their plaint forlorn:—

The Dirge.

Weep, Biscaya, weep!

’Mongst dead and dying,

On the bloody heap

Is Blanca lying.

William’s sword hath smote