“God is great!” said Boabdil; “and God comforts me still! Thy lips; which never flattered me in my power, have no reproach for me in my affliction!”
He said, and smiled upon Amine—it was her hour of triumph.
The band wound slowly on through the solitary defiles: and that place where the king wept, and the woman soothed, is still called “El, ultimo suspiro del Moro,—THE LAST SIGH OF THE MOOR!”
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The Mohammedans believe that musical bells hang on the trees of Paradise, and are put in motion by a wind from the throne of God.