Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Americas: Vol. XXX. 1876–79. | | | | Introductory to South America | | The Revenge of America | | Joseph Warton (1722–1800) |
| | | WHEN fierce Pizarro’s legions flew | |
| O’er ravaged fields of rich Peru, | |
| Struck with his bleeding people’s woes, | |
| Old India’s awful Genius rose. | |
| He sat on Andes’ topmost stone, | 5 |
| And heard a thousand nations groan; | |
| For grief his feathery crown he tore, | |
| To see huge Plata foam with gore; | |
| He broke his arrows, stamped the ground, | |
| To view his cities smoking round. | 10 |
| “What woes,” he cried, “hath lust of gold | |
| O’er my poor country widely rolled; | |
| Plunderers, proceed! my bowels tear, | |
| But ye shall meet destruction there; | |
| From the deep-vaulted mine shall rise | 15 |
| The insatiate fiend, pale Avarice, | |
| Whose steps shall trembling Justice fly, | |
| Peace, Order, Law, and Amity! | |
| I see all Europe’s children cursed | |
| With lucre’s universal thirst; | 20 |
| The rage that sweeps my sons away, | |
| My baneful gold shall well repay.” | | | | |
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