But scarce her voice had breathed that well-known name, When, swiftly rushing o’er her spirit, came Each dark remembrance--by affliction’s power Awhile effaced in that o’erwhelming hour, To wake with tenfold strength: ’twas then her eye Resumed its light, her mien its majesty, And o’er her wasted cheek a burning glow Spreads, while her lips’ indignant accents flow. “Away! I dream! Oh, how hath sorrow’s might Bow’d down my soul, and quench’d its native light-- That I should thus forget! and bid _thy_ tear With mine be mingled o’er a father’s bier! Did he not perish, haply by thy hand, In the last combat with thy ruthless band? The morn beheld that conflict of despair:-- ’Twas then he fell--he fell!--and thou wert there! Thou! who thy country’s children hast pursued To their last refuge midst these mountains rude. Was it for this I loved thee?--Thou hast taught My soul all grief, all bitterness of thought! ’Twill soon be past--I bow to heaven’s decree, Which bade each pang be minister’d by thee.” “I had not deem’d that aught remain’d below For me to prove of yet untasted woe; But thus to meet thee, Zayda! can impart One more, one keener agony of heart. Oh, hear me yet!--I would have died to save My foe, but still thy father, from the grave; But in the fierce confusion of the strife, In my own stern despair and scorn of life, Borne wildly on, I saw not, knew not aught, Save that to perish there in vain I sought. And let me share thy sorrows!--hadst thou known All I have felt in silence and alone, E’en _thou_ mightst then relent, and deem, at last, A grief like mine might expiate all the past “But oh! for thee, the loved and precious flower, So fondly rear’d in luxury’s guarded bower, From every danger, every storm secured, How hast _thou_ suffer’d! what hast thou endured! Daughter of palaces! and can it be That this bleak desert is a home for thee! These rocks _thy_ dwelling! thou, who shouldst have known Of life the sunbeam and the smile alone! Oh, yet forgive!--be all my guilt forgot, Nor bid me leave thee to so rude a lot!”