SONNET.

IMITATED FROM THE ITALIAN OF BENEDETTO DALL' UVA .

ON THE SIEGE OF FAMAGUSTA, IN THE ISLAND OF CYPRUS, BY THE TURKS, IN 1571.

Thus saith the Lord: — " In whom shall Cyprus trust,
With all her crimes, her luxury, and pride?
In her voluptuous loves will she confide,
Her harlot-daughters, and her queen of lust?
My day is come when o'er her neck in dust,
Vengeance and fury shall triumphant ride,
Death and captivity the spoil divide,
And Cyprus perish: — I the Lord am just.

" Then he that bought, and he that sold in thee,
Thy princely merchants, shall their loss deplore,
Brothers in ruin as in fraud before;
And thou, who madest thy rampart of the sea,
Less by thy foes cast down than crush'd by Me!
Thou, Famagusta! fall, and rise no more. "