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Their names, before their deeds, O Muse! record 

 Cortez, Almagro's far-destroying sword, 

 Cordova, with Nereda's heir combin'd, 

 Moran, Gonzalo, with Hernandez join'd j 

 With Maldonado, Penalosa came. 

 Their place Vergara next, and Garcia claim, 

 Herrera nigh with Castañeda rode, 

 Like the twin offspring of th' Olympian God ; 

 And noble Manrique, not the lowest name. 

 Brought up the rear, and clos'd the lists of fame ; 

 Those, when the fallen- Valdivia sent for aid. 

 With eager haste the martial call obey'd. 

 And spurr'd along, unconscious of the doom 

 That sent their General to th' untimely tomb. 

 By Puren's shadowy cliffs the heroes past, 

 And reach 'd a sylvan theatre at last. 

 Where marks of mighty rendezvous were seen. 

 For countless feet had mark'd the trodden green ; 

 By num'rous signs they soon discover'd clear. 

 That wild Revolt had rais'dher standard here ; 

 Yet neither stopp'd their course, nor turn'd aside, 

 Till mild Aurora's crimson vest they spy'd, 

 Above the dawning hills display'd afar. 

 And gladly hail'd the morn's ascending car. 

 Fair Elicura's opening vale they spy. 

 When Sol o'erlooked the woods with lordly eye. 

 Here in dread ambuscade the Indians lay. 

 Hoping that, when their Foes pursu'd their way 

 In careless march, a loose, disorder'd host. 

 Their bands, conceal'd around the fatal post, 

 Might hem them in amid the woodland gloom 

 All unawares, and mark them for the tomb. 



Three steep descending glades the Warriors past, 

 And to the central shades arriv'd at last ; 

 Where stood their foes, deep rang'd in alleys green. 

 Hiding in sylvan mask their hideous mien ; 

 Sudden, the Araucanian trump afar 

 Was heard, and tambourines provoke the war ; 

 Barbarian cymbals join their deadly sound. 

 And doubling echoes from the vales rebound, 

 While from their green retreats in dread array 

 The Indians pour, and intercept the way. 



