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She ceas'd--her spirit fled to purer spheres--
_Las Casas_ bathes the pallid corse with tears--
Fly, minister of good! nor ling'ring shed
Those fruitless sorrows o'er the unconscious dead;
Ah fly--'tis innocence, 'tis virtue bleeds, 185
And heav'n will listen, when an angel pleads;
I view the sanguine flood, the wasting flame,
I hear a suff'ring world _Las Casas_ claim! 188
[A] LAS CASAS, &c. that amiable Ecclesiastic, who obtained by his
humanity the title of Protector of the Indies.
[B] --On his crest
Sat horror plum'd.
_Par. Lost_, iv. 988.
PERU.
CANTO THE FOURTH.
THE ARGUMENT.
Almagro's _expedition to Chili--his troops suffer great hardships from
cold, in crossing the Andes--they reach Chili--the Chilese make a brave
resistance--the revolt of the Peruvians in Cuzco--they are led on by_
Manco-Capac, _the successor of_ Ataliba--_his parting with_ Cora, _his
wife--the Peruvians regain half their city_--Almagro _leaves Chili--to
avoid the Andes, he crosses a vast desert--his troops can find no water
--the rest divide in two bands_--Alphonso _leads the second band, which
soon reaches a fertile valley--the Spaniards observe the natives are
employed in searching the streams for gold--they resolve to attack
them.
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