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XXXVII.

Awake, ye sons of Spain! awake! advance Lo! Chivalry, your ancient goddess, cries, But wields not, as of old, her thirsty lance, Nor shakes her crimson plumage in the skies: Now on the smoke of blazing bolts she flies, And speaks in thunder through yon engine's roar! In every peal she calls--'Awake! arise!' Say, is her voice more feeble than of yore, When her war-song was heard on Andalusia's shore?