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 Clos’d her bright life and her majestic fame; Though to thy feeble and barbarian hand Hath fall’n the victory, be not thou elate! Boast not thyself, though thine that day of shame,
 * Unworthy of a name!

Know, if the Spaniard in his wrath advance, Arous’d to vengeance by a nation’s cry,
 * Pierc’d by his searching lance,

Then shalt thou expiate crime with agony, And thine affrighted streams, to ocean's flood, An ample tribute bear, of Afric’s Paynim blood.