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Coumourgi — he whose closing scene
Adorn`d the triumph of Eugene,
When on Carlowitz` bloody plain,
The last and mightiest of the slain,
He sank, regretting not to die,
But cursed the Christian`s victory —
Coumourgi — can his glory cease,
That latest conqueror of Greece,
Till Christian hands to Greece restore
The freedom Venice gave of yore?
A hundred years have roll`d away
Since he refix`d the Moslem`s sway,
And now he led the Mussulman,
And gave the guidance of the van
To Alp, who well repaid the trust
By cities levell`d with the dust;
And proved, by many a deed of death,
How firm his heart in novel faith.
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