Poems of Felicia Hemans in A Collection of Peninsular Melodies 1830/Song of Mina's Soldiers

by Felicia Hemans

For other versions of this work, see The Song of Mina's Soldiers.

From The United Service Magazine, Jan.-June 1830, page 415

SONG OF MINA’S SOLDIERS.

BY MRS. HEMANS.

(From the First Number of the Peninsular Melodies.)

We heard thy name, O Mina!
    Far through our hills it rang;
A sound more strong than tempests,
    More deep than armour's clang:
The peasant left his vineyard,
    The shepherd grasp'd the spear;
We heard thy name, O Mina!
    The mountain bands are here.

As eagles to the day-spring,
    As torrents to the sea,
From every dark Sierra,
    So rushed our hearts to thee.
Thy spirit is our banner,
    Thine eye our beacon-sign,
Thy name our trumpet, Mina!—
    The mountain bands are thine.