![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They search - they find - they save: with lusty arms Each bears a prize of unregarded charms Calm their loud fears sustain their sinking frames With all the care defenceless beauty claims: So well could Conrad tame their fiercest mood, And check the very hands with gore imbrued. He climbs the crackling stair - he bursts the door, Nor feels his feet glow scorching with the floor His breath choked gasping with the volumed smoke, But still from room to room his way he broke. I forgot - but Heaven will not forgive If at my word the helpless cease to live: Follow who will - I go - we yet have time Our souls to lighten of at least a crime.' On them such outrage Vengeance will repay Man is our foe, and such 'tis ours to slay But still we spared - must spare the weaker prey. Burst the Haram - wrong not on your lives One female form - remember - we have wives. A stern delight was fix'd in Conrad's eye, But sudden sunk - for on his ear the cry Of women struck, and like a deadly knell Knock'd at that heart unmoved by battle's yell. Quick at the word - they seized him each a torch, And fire the dome from minaret to porch. Within a narrower ring compress'd, beset, Hopeless, not heartless, strive and struggle yet - Ah! Now they fight in firmest file no more, Hemm'd in. ![]()
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