Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Asia: Vols. XXI–XXIII. 1876–79. | | | | Asia Minor: Cyprus, the Island | | Sonnet | | James Montgomery (1771–1854) |
| | On the Siege of Famagusta, in the Island of Cyprus, by the Turks, in 1571 |
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THUS saith the Lord: “In whom shall Cyprus trust, | |
| With all her crimes, her luxury, and pride? | |
| In her voluptuous loves will she confide, | |
| Her harlot-daughters, and her queen of lust? | |
| My day is come when o’er her neck in dust | 5 |
| Vengeance and fury shall triumphant ride, | |
| Death and captivity the spoil divide, | |
| And Cyprus perish: I the Lord am just. | |
| Then he that bought, and he that sold in thee, | |
| Thy princely merchants, shall their loss deplore, | 10 |
| Brothers in ruin as in fraud before; | |
| And thou, who madest thy rampart of the sea, | |
| Less by thy foes cast down than crushed by me! | |
| Thou, Famagusta! fall, and rise no more.” | | | |
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