At every turn Morena's dusky height[74]

Sustains aloft the battery's iron load;

And, far as mortal eye can compass sight,

The mountain-howitzer, the broken road,

The bristling palisade, the fosse o'erflowed,

The stationed bands, the never-vacant watch,[co]

The magazine in rocky durance stowed,

The bolstered steed beneath the shed of thatch,

The ball-piled pyramid, the ever-blazing match, [10.B.]