Beneath the wild boar's cruel tusk.

A wintry dawn on pallid skies,

A summer's day that turns to dusk.

A lovely garden green and fair

Ravaged and slashed by strokes of steel;

Or wasted in its trim parterres

And trampled by the common heel.

So spake the brave heart-broken Moor;

Until his tears and struggling sighs

Turned to fierce rage; the painting then