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Meteor-like, with its crimson shine, O'er many a standard's scutcheon'd line.

On the hill opposite there stood The warriors of the Moorish blood,— With their silver crescents gleaming, And their horse-tail pennons streaming; With cymbals and the clanging gong, The muezzin's unchanging song, The turbans that like rainbows shone, The coursers' gay caparison, As if another world had been Where that small rivulet ran between.

And there was desperate strife next day: The little vale below that lay