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HERRERA’S ODE ON THE DEFEAT OF
KING SEBASTIAN OF PORTUGAL AND
HIS ARMY, IN AFRICA.
KING SEBASTIAN OF PORTUGAL AND
HIS ARMY, IN AFRICA.
Voy de dolor, y canto de gemido, &c.
A voice of woe, a murmur of lament,
A spirit of deep fear and mingled ire,
Let such record the day, the day of wail,
For Lusitania’s bitter chastening sent!
She who hath seen her power, her fame expire,
And mourns them in the dust, uncrown’d and pale!
And let the awful tale
With grief and horror every realm o’er shade,
From Afric’s burning main
To the far seas in other hues array’d,
And the red limits of the Orient’s reign,
Whose nations, haughty, though subdued, behold
Christ’s glorious banner to the winds unfold.
Alas! for those, that in embattled power,
And vain array of chariots and of horse,
