Challenge

/tab\I have a vague remembrance
/tab\/tab\Of a story that is told
/tab\In some ancient Spanish legend
/tab\/tab\Or chronicle of old.
/tab\It was when brave King Sanchez
/tab\/tab\Was before Zamora slain,
/tab\And his great besieging army
/tab\/tab\Lay encamped upon the plain.
/tab\Don Diego de Ordenez
/tab\/tab\Sallied forth in front of all,
/tab\And shouted loud his challenge
/tab\/tab\To the warders on the wall.
/tab\All the people of Zamora,
/tab\/tab\Both the born and the unborn,
/tab\As traitors did he challenge
/tab\/tab\With taunting words of scorn.
/tab\The living in their houses,
/tab\/tab\And in their graves the dead,
/tab\And the waters in their rivers,
/tab\/tab\And their wine, and oil, and bread.
/tab\There is a greater army
/tab\/tab\That besets us round with strife,
/tab\A starving, numberless army
/tab\/tab\At all the gates of life.

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