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SIEGE OF VALENCIA.


How thick the shades close round!—my boy! my boy!
Where art thou in this gloom?

GARCIAS.

Let us go hence!

This is a dreadful moment!

GONZALEZ.

Hush!—what saidst thou?

Now let me look on him!—Dost thou see aught
Through the dull mist which wraps us?

GARCIAS.

I behold—

Oh! for a thousand Spaniards to rush down—

GONZALEZ.

Thou seest—My heart stands still to hear thee speak!

—There seems a fearful hush upon the air,
As 't were the dead of night!

GARCIAS.

The hosts have closed

Around the spot in stillness. Through the spears,
Ranged thick and motionless, I see him not;
—But now—

GONZALEZ.

He bade me keep mine eye upon him,

And all is darkness round me!—Now?

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