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gold key at the next besamanos, or audience-day, of Aranjuez or Madrid.

Enough. I saw beneath my feet the same fertile soil, above me the same auspicious heavens, around me the same manly forms, which Granada possessed of yore:-the body of greatness remained here with her still; but she wanted the glorious and ethereal soul of greatness, the unquenchable spirit without which the rest is naught, for she wanted

FREEDOM.

BERNARDO DEL CARPIO.

Thy heart hath burned, as shepherds sung
Some wild and warlike strain,

When the Moorish horn was proudly rung

Through the pealing hills of Spain.

O dear father,

It is thy business that I go about;

MRS. HEMANS.

No blown ambition doth our arms incite,

But love, dear love, and our aged father's right:

Soon may I hear and see him.

VOL. I.

SHAKSPEARE'S KING LEAR.

The day of Roncesvalles was

A dismal day for you,

Ye men of France; for then the lance

Of King Charles was broke in two.
Ye well may curse that awful field,
For many a noble peer

In fray or fight the dirt did bite
Beneath Bernardo's spear.

LOCKHART'S SPANISH BALLADS.

Charlemagne, dont le pouvoir colossal menaçait l'Europe, avait franchi les Pyrénées, soumis la rive gauche de l'Ebre, pris Barcelone et Pampelune. Il rentrait vainqueur en France, lorsque les Navarrois, se montrant tout-à-coup sur les montagnes d'Altabizcar fondent sur ses troupes et les enveloppent. En vain l'intrepide Roland renouvelle ses immortelles prouesses, tant de fois chantées par nos vieux romanciers; il est accablé par le nombre et reste sur le champ de bataille avec l'élite des paladins de Charlemagne; l'Empereur lui même ne trouve son salut que dans la fuite. Tel fut le combat de Roncevaux.

MONCLAVE, HIS. DE L'ESPAGNE.

Teems not each ditty with the glorious tale?
Ah! such, alas! the hero's amplest fate!
When granite moulders and when records fail,
A peasant's plaint prolongs his dubious date.

Pride! bend thine eye from heaven to thine estate:
See how the mighty shrink into a song!

Can volume, pillar, pile preserve thee great?

Or must thou trust Tradition's simple tongue,

When Flattery sleeps with thee, and History does thee wrong?

BYRON'S CHILDE HAROLD.

BERNARDO DEL CARPIO.

THE reign of Alfonso the Second covers a period of half a century, from 791 to 842, during which the Christians successfully defended themselves against the Moors in their mountain fastnesses of the Asturias and Leon, gradually extending their little territory, and acquiring confidence and firmness from time. But this period is dear to Spanish recollection, less for its long series of every day wars between the Goths and Arabs, than for an episode, as it were, in its history, consisting of a brief struggle between the Spaniards and the troops of Charlemagne, and the achievements, whether fable or fact, of Bernardo del Carpio. Alfonso bears the surname of the Chaste, and has narrowly escaped canonization for the monastic virtue he displayed, in never so much as seeing his wife Bertha, a princess of the royal family of the Franks. But, as the story runs, his sister, Doña Ximena, was not distinguished in the same way. Don Sancho Diaz, Conde de Saldaña, gained the affection of the fair but frail

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