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Character of ZAMOR a bard His passion for ACILOE daughter of the Cazique who rules the valley The Peruvian tribe prepare to defend themselves A battle The PERUVIANS are vanquished ACILOE'S father is made a prisoner and ZAMOR is supposed to have fallen in the engagement ALPHONSO becomes enamoured of ACILOE Offers to marry her She rejects him In revenge he puts her father to the torture She appears to consent in order to save him Meets ZAMOR in a wood LAS CASAS joins them Leads the two lovers to ALPHONSO and obtains their freedom ZAMOR conducts ACILOE and her father to Chili A reflection on the influence of Poetry over the human mind	A
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In this sweet scene to all the virtues kind	A
Mild ZAMOR own'd the richest gifts of mind	A
For o'er his tuneful breast the heav'nly muse	B
Shed from her sacred spring inspiring dews	B
She loves to breathe her hallow'd strain where art	C
Has never veil'd the soul or warp'd the heart	C
Where fancy glows with all her native fire	D
And passion lives on the exulting lyre	E
Nature in terror rob'd or beauty dreast	C
Could thrill with dear enchantment ZAMOR'S breast	C
He lov'd the languid sigh the zephyr pours	F
He lov'd the placid rill that feeds the flowers	G
But more the hollow sound the wild winds form	H
When black upon the billow hangs the storm	H
The torrent rolling from the mountain steep	I
Its white foam trembling on the darken'd deep	I
And oft on Andes' heights with earnest gaze	J
He view'd the sinking sun's reflected rays	J
Glow like unnumber'd stars that seem to rest	C
Sublime upon his ice encircled breast	C
Oft his wild warblings charm'd the festal hour	D
Rose in the vale and languish'd in the bower	D
The heart's reponsive tones he well could move	K
Whose song was nature and whose theme was love	L
ACILOE'S beauties his fond soul confest	C
Yet more ACILOE'S virtues warm'd his breast	C
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Ah stay ye tender hours of young delight	C
Suspend ye moments your impatient flight	C
Prolong the charm when passion's pure controul	M
Unfolds the first affections of the soul	M
This gentle tribe ACILOE'S sire obey'd	C
Who still in wisdom and in mercy sway'd	C
From him the dear illusions long had fled	C
That o'er the morn of life enchantment shed	C
But virtue's calm remembrance cheer'd his breast	C
And life was joy serene and death was rest	C
Bright is the blushing Summer's glowing ray	N
Yet not unlovely Autumn's temper'd day	N
Now stern IBERIA'S ruthless sons advance	O
Roll the fierce eye and shake the pointed lance	O
PERUVIA'S tribe behold the hostile throng	P
With desolating fury pour along	P
The hoary chief to the dire conflict leads	Q
His death devoted train the battle bleeds	Q
ACILOE'S searching eye can now no more	R
The form of ZAMOR or her sire explore	R
While destin'd all the bitterness to prove	K
Of anxious duty and of mourning love	L
Each name that's dearest wakes her bursting sigh	S
Throbs at her soul and trembles in her eye	S
Now pierc'd by wounds and breathless from the fight	C
Her friend the valiant OMAR struck her sight	C
OMAR she cried you bleed unhappy youth	T
And sure that look unfolds some fatal truth	T
Speak pitying speak my frantic fears forgive	U
Say does my father does my ZAMOR live	V
All all is lost the dying OMAR said	C
And endless griefs are thine dear wretched maid	C
I saw thy aged sire a captive bound	C
I saw thy ZAMOR press the crimson ground	C
He could no more he yields his fleeting breath	W
While all in vain she seeks repose in death	W
But O how far each other pang above	L
Throbs the wild agony of hopeless love	L
That woe for which in vain would comfort shed	C
Her healing balm or time in pity spread	C
The veil that throws a shade o'er other care	X
For here and here alone profound despair	X
Casts o'er the suff'ring soul a lasting gloom	Y
And slowly leads her victim to the tomb	Y
Now rude tumultuous sounds assail her ear	Z
And soon ALPHONSO'S victor train appear	A2
Then as with ling'ring step he mov'd along	P
She saw her father 'mid the captive throng	P
She saw with dire dismay she wildly flew	M
Her snowy arms around his form she threw	M
He bleeds she cries I hear his moan of pain	B2
My father will not bear the galling chain	B2
Cruel ALPHONSO let not helpless age	C2
Feel thy hard yoke and meet thy barb'rous rage	C2
Or O if ever mercy mov'd thy soul	M
If ever thou hast felt her blest controul	M
Grant my sad heart's desire and let me share	X
The fetters which a father ill can bear	X
While the young warrior as she falt'ring spoke	D2
With fix'd attention and with ardent look	E2
Hung on her tender glance that love inspires	F2
The rage of conquest yields to milder fires	G
Yet as he gaz'd enraptur'd on her form	H
Her virtues awe the heart her beauties warm	H
And while impassion'd tones his love reveal	M
He asks with holy rites his vows to seal	M
Hops't thou she cried those sacred ties shall join	G2
This bleeding heart this trembling hand to thine	H2
To thine whose ruthless heart has caus'd my pains	I2
Whose barb'rous hand the blood of ZAMOR stains	I2
Canst thou the murd'rer of my peace controul	M
The grief that swells the pang that rends my soul	M
That pang shall death shall death alone remove	K
And cure the anguish of despairing love	L
At length to madness stung by fixed disdain	B2
ALPHONSO now to fury gives the rein	B2
And with relentless mandate dooms her sire	D
Stretch'd on the bed of torture to expire	E
But O what form of language can impart	C
The frantic grief that wrung ACILOE'S heart	C
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When to the height of hopeless sorrow wrought	C
The fainting spirit feels a pang of thought	C
Which never painted in the hues of speech	J2
Lives at the soul and mocks expression's reach	J2
At length she falt'ring cried the conflict's o'er	D
My heart my breaking heart can bear no more	R
Yet spare his feeble age my vows receive	K2
And O in mercy bid my father live	V
Wilt thou be mine th' enamour'd chief replies	L2
Yes cruel see he dies my father dies	L2
Save save my father Dear unhappy maid	C
The charm'd ALPHONSO cried be swift obey'd	C
Unbind his chains Ah calm each anxious pain	B2
ACILOE'S voice no more shall plead in vain	B2
Plac'd near his child thy aged sire shall share	X
Our joys still cherished by thy tender care	X
No more she cried will fate that bliss allow	M
Before my lips shall breathe the impartial vow	M
Some faithful guide shall lead his aged feet	C
To distant scenes that yield a safe retreat	C
Where some soft heart some gentle hand will shed	C
The drops of comfort on his hoary head	C
My ZAMOR if thy spirit hovers near	A2
Forgive she ceas'd and shed no more a tear	X
Now night descends and steeps each weary breast	C
Save sad ACILOE'S in the balm of rest	C
Her aged father's beauteous dwelling stood	C
Near the cool shelter of a waving wood	C
But now the gales that bend its foliage die	S
Soft on the silver turf its shadows lie	S
While slowly wand'ring o'er the vale below	M
The gazing moon look'd pale as silent woe	M
The sacred shade amid whose fragrant bowers	G
ZAMOR oft sooth'd with song the evening hours	G
Pour'd to the lunar orb his magic lay	M
More mild more pensive than her musing ray	M
That shade with trembling step the mourner sought	C
And thus she breath'd her tender plaintive thought	C
Ah where dear object of these piercing pains	I2
Where rests thy murder'd form thy Lov'd remains	I2
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On what sad spot my ZAMOR flow'd the wound	C
That purpled with thy streaming blood the ground	C
O had ACILOE in that hour been nigh	S
Hadst thou but fix'd on me thy closing eye	S
Told with faint voice 'twas death's worst pang to part	C
And dropp'd thy last cold tear upon my heart	C
A pang less bitter then would waste this breast	C
That in the grave alone shall seek its rest	C
Soon as some friendly hand in mercy leads	Q
My aged father safe to Chili's meads	Q
Death shall for ever seal the nuptial tie	S
The heart belov'd by thee is fix'd to die	S
She ceas'd when dimly thro' her flowing tears	M2
Sh	J2

Helen Maria Williams

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