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DEFEAT OF SEBASTIAN.
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Know, if the Spaniard in his wrath advance,
Aroused to vengeance by a nation's cry,
        Pierced by his searching lance,
Soon shalt thou expiate crime with agony,
And thine affrighted streams to ocean's flood
An ample tribute bear of Afric's Paynim blood.