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ANCIENT SPANISH BATTLE SONG.*[1]
The Moor is on his way!
With the tambour-peal and the tecbir-shout,†[2]
And the horn o'er the blue seas ringing out,
He hath marshalled his dark array!
Shout through the vine-clad land!
That her sons on all their hills may hear,
And sharpen the point of the red wolf spear,
And the sword for the brave man's hand!
- ↑ * Reprinted from the "Siege of Valentia."
- ↑ † Tecbir, the Moorish war-cry.
