 | Johannes Schmidt - Nature in literature - 1904 - 116 pages
...verglichen, hier aber lassen sie sich, einer Heuschreckenwolke gleich, am Gestade Iberiens nieder: And like a cloud of locusts, whom the South Wafts from the plains of wasted Africa, The Musslemen upon Iberia's shore Descend **). Das Herabfallen der Asche vom Haupte Pelayos, der am Grabe... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1909 - 808 pages
...for Spain, 10 For that unhappy daughter and himself, Desperate apostate . . on the Moors he call'd ; And like a cloud of locusts, whom the South Wafts from the plains of wasted Africa, The Musselmen upon Iberia's shore Descend. A countless multitude they came; Syrian, Moor, Saracen, Greek... | |
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Roderick's head, in evil hour for Spain, For that unhappy daughter, and himself, — Desperate apostate ! — on the Moors he called ; And like a cloud of locusts, whom the South Wafts from the plains of wasted Africa, The Mussulmen upon Iberia's shore... 
