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Ho! more help here! more stones! more beams! more fire! Weapons are useless now.

See how that giant Turk, like an arch fiend, Climbs on yon living mountain of curv'd backs! He gains the wall! O hurl him headlong down! He is hurl'd down! (A great shout from the besieged.)

Send to the emperor or to Rodrigo: They on their diff'rent stations hold it bravely; This is the weakest point. Ho! send for aid! Turn, turn! O turn, my friends! another push! Let us still stop the breach, or fall like men.