I thought of thee on stern Sebastian's height, Gazing on rock, and flood, and sounding shore, And sparkling waves, that danced in Eastern light, When Morn her orange-wreath in beauty wore: I heard the broad Atlantic's solemn roar, Look'd to the steadfast hills, and thought of thee Bidding thy bedes at Mercy's golden door, Till Pride was quell'd, and suffering realms were free; That evermore the pine-clad Pyrenee Might be this loyal land's unbroken zone, And Truth, more fair than Morn o'er sparkling sea, Might dawn to blend long-sever'd faiths in one. Shall it not come, that dawn of Truth so fair? Thy spirit lives, and Heaven records the prayer! IO. His "Ode on the Armada," and "St. Hermengild" A Second Part not published Alvar Bazan, first Marquis of Santa Cruz; and the 12. Philip II., Mr. Motley, and the Armada. The Count PAGE Gongora takes holy Orders at Cordova He comes to Court. His occupation as a Poet there. Peace with Great Britain. Mission of Lord 16. Reasons for the Peace on both sides. Deaths of Drake 19. Festivities continued. Gongora's description of them. His "Panegyric on the Duke of Lerma " Philip III. His character, education, and ministers. 44 45 36. The loss to Spain may have been exaggerated; but the injustice cannot be palliated or denied 37. Sufferings of the expelled. Were there any Christians 38. Operations against the pirates in Barbary. Larache Attack on Adra. Denia, a port coast Ransoms negotiated by the Friars 48. Prevalence of robbers. State of Catalonia 49. Cervantes. Public favour to rogues and vagabonds. |