Nor wept, but as she bade her mother’s grave adieu!

XXV.

Past was the flight, and welcome seemed the tower,

That like a giant standard-bearer frowned

Defiance on the roving Indian power.

Beneath, each bold and promontory mound

With embrasure embossed, and armour crowned,

And arrowy frieze, and wedgèd ravelin,

Wove like a diadem its tracery round

The lofty summit of that mountain green;