Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and Holland: Vols. XIV–XV. 1876–79. | | | | Spain: Fuentes de Onoro | | At Fuentes de Onoro | | Robert Southey (1774–1843) |
| | | THE FOUNTAINS of Onoro, which give name | |
| To this poor hamlet, were distained with blood, | |
| What time Massena, driven from Portugal | |
| By national virtue in endurance proved, | |
| And England’s faithful aid, against the land | 5 |
| Not long delivered, desperately made | |
| His last fierce effort here. That day, bestreaked | |
| With slaughter, Coa and Agueda ran, | |
| So deeply had the open veins of war | |
| Purpled their mountain feeders. Strong in means, | 10 |
| With rest and stores and numbers reinforced, | |
| Came the ferocious enemy, and weened | |
| Beneath their formidable cavalry | |
| To trample down resistance. But there fought | |
| Against them here, with Britons side by side, | 15 |
| The children of regenerate Portugal, | |
| And their own crimes, and all-beholding Heaven. | |
| Beaten, and hopeless thenceforth of success, | |
| The inhuman Marshal, never to be named | |
| By Lusitanian lips without a curse | 20 |
| Of clinging infamy, withdrew, and left | |
| These Fountains famous for his overthrow. | | | | |
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