SEA SPRAY &> SMOKE DRIFT 



In his left a strip of scarlet, 

 In his right a streak of steel ; 



Ah ! the monster topples over, 



Till his haunches strike the plain ! — 



Low-born clown and lying lover, 

 Thou hast conquer'd once again. 



JVzna 



Sweet Madonna, maiden mother. 

 Thou hast saved him, and no other ; 

 Now the tears I cannot smother, 



Tears of joy, my vision blind ; 

 Where thou sittest I am gazing, 

 These glad, misty eyes upraising, 

 I have pray'd, and I am praising, 



Bless thee ! bless thee ! virgin kind. 



Francesca 



While the crowd still sways and surges, 

 Ere the applauding shouts have ceas'd, 



See, the second bull emerges — 

 'Tis the famed Cordovan beast, — 



By the picador ungoaded, 



Scathless of the chulo's dart. 



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