THE

SIEGE OF VALENCIA;

A DRAMATIC POEM.

THE LAST CONSTANTINE:

WITH

OTHER POEMS.

BY MRS. HEMANS.

Hallò sola en Numancia todo quanto

Debe con justo titulo cantarse,

Y lo que puede dar materia al canto.

Numancia Cervantes.

LONDON:

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.

1823.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY THOMAS, DAVISON, WHITEFRIARS.

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THE

THE LAST CONSTANTINE.

Thou strivest nobly,

When hearts of sterner stuff perhaps had sunk :

And o'er thy fall, if it be so decreed,

Good men will mourn, and brave men will shed tears.

Fame I look not for,

But to sustain, in Heaven's all seeing eye,
Before my fellow men, in mine own sight,
With graceful virtue and becoming pride,
The dignity and honour of a man,
Thus station'd as I am, I will do all
That man may do.

Miss Baillie's Constantine Palæologus.

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