XXXIX.

From Echallar on Barbe our men descend, And win the fort with British shouts of power. The camp of Sarre’s outflanked, Clausel doth end Resistance there, retiring in that hour. He dreads his rear cut off, resigns his tower Of strength--the greater Rhune, and takes his stand Upon the lesser height. But soon the flower Of Britain’s rifles crown the mountain grand, And from the Hermitage the lower heights command.