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Hath fate but led me hither to behold The last dread struggle, ere that heart is cold, Receive thy latest agonizing breath, And, with vain pity, soothe the pangs of death? Yet let me bear thee hence—while life remains, E'en though thus feebly circling through thy veins, Some healing balm thy sense may still revive, Hope is not lost,—and Osmyn yet may live! And blest were he, whose timely care should save A heart so noble, e'en from glory's grave."

Roused by those accents, from his lowly bed, The dying warrior faintly lifts his head; O'er Hamet's mien, with vague, uncertain gaze, His doubtful glance awhile bewilder'd strays; Till, by degrees, a smile of proud disdain Lights up those features late convulsed with pain; A quivering radiance flashes from his eye, That seems too pure, too full of soul, to die; And the mind's grandeur, in its parting hour, Looks from that brow with more than wonted power.

"Away!" he cries, in accents of command, And proudly waves his cold and trembling hand,