Poems of Felicia Hemans in A Collection of Peninsular Melodies 1830/There are sounds in the dark Roncesvalles

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Poems of Felicia Hemans in A Collection of Peninsular Melodies 1830 (1830)
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There are sounds in the dark Roncesvalles

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From The Poems of Felicia Hemans, 1872 edition

THERE ARE SOUNDS IN THE DARK RONCESVALLES.

There are sounds in the dark Roncesvalles,
    There are echoes on Biscay's wild shore;
There are murmurs—but not of the torrent,
    Nor the wind, nor the pine-forest's roar.

'Tis a day of the spear and the banner,
    Of armings and hurried farewells;
Rise, rise on your mountains, ye Spaniards!
    Or start from your old battle-dells.

There are streams of unconquer'd Asturias
    That have roll'd with your father's free blood:
Oh! leave on tho graves of the mighty
    Proud marks where their children have stood!