Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and Holland: Vols. XIV–XV. 1876–79. | | | | Spain: Trujillo | | For a Column at Trujillo | | Robert Southey (1774–1843) |
| | | PIZARRO here was born; a greater name | |
| The list of glory boasts not. Toil and pain, | |
| Famine and hostile elements, and hosts | |
| Embattled, failed to check him in his course, | |
| Not to be wearied, not to be deterred, | 5 |
| Not to be overcome. A mighty realm | |
| He overran, and with relentless arm | |
| Slew or enslaved its unoffending sons; | |
| And wealth and power and fame were his rewards. | |
| There is another world beyond the grave, | 10 |
| According to their deeds where men are judged. | |
| O reader! if thy daily bread be earned | |
| By daily labor,—yea, however low, | |
| However painful be thy lot assigned,— | |
| Thank thou, with deepest gratitude, the God | 15 |
| Who made thee, that thou art not such as he. | | | | |
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