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While echoing domes return the battle-cry, "Revenge and freedom! let the tyrant die!" And onward rushing, and prevailing still, Court, hall, and tower, the fierce avengers fill.

But first and bravest of that gallant train, Where foes are mightiest, charging ne'er in vain; In his red hand the sabre glancing bright, His dark eye flashing with a fiercer light, Ardent, untired, scarce conscious that he bleeds, His Aben-Zurrahs3 there young Hamet leads; While swells his voice that wild acclaim on high, "Revenge and freedom! let the tyrant die!"

Yes, trace the footsteps of the warrior's wrath, By helm and corslet shatter'd in his path; And by the thickest harvest of the slain, And by the marble's deepest crimson stain: Search through the serried fight, where loudest cries From triumph, anguish, or despair arise; And brightest where the shivering falchions glare, And where the ground is reddest—he is there. Yes, that young arm, amidst the Zegri host, Hath well avenged a sire, a brother, lost.