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No voice is heard—but in each alter'd eye, Once brightly beaming when his steps were nigh, And in each look of those, whose love hath fled From all on earth to slumber with the dead, Those, by his guilt made desolate, and thrown On the bleak wilderness of life alone. In youth's quick glance of scarce-dissembled rage, And the pale mien of calmly-mournful age, May well be read a dark and fearful tale Of thought that ill th' indignant heart can veil, And passion, like the hush'd volcano's power, That waits in stillness its appointed hour,

No more the clarion, from Granada's walls, Heard o'er the Vega, to the tourney calls; No more her graceful daughters, throned on high, Bend o'er the lists the darkly-radiant eye; Silence and gloom her palaces o'erspread, And song is hush'd, and pageantry is fled. —Weep, fated city! o'er thy heroes weep— Low in the dust the sons of glory sleep! Furl'd are their banners in the lonely hall, Their trophied shields hang mouldering on the wall,