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 flames of sacrifice; or ’gainst the powers

Of Tarik fierce arrayed in darker hours—

From rough Asturian mountains hurling down

Huge rocks whose maw the Moorish host devours,

While great Pelayo’s form with deadly frown

Up Covadonga’s vale comes trampling fell Mahoun!

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Or ’mid the echoing heights that girdle round

Fair Roncesvalles taming haughty France,