Note 1373 — Chapter XV · THE NORMAN INVASION AND THE CAMPAIGN OF HASTINGS.[1055] (continued 2)

Compare the description of a widely different warfare;

“And one enormous shout of ‘Allah!’ rose

In the same moment, loud as even the roar

Of war’s most mortal engines, to their foes

Hurling defiance: city, stream, and shore

Resounded ‘Allah!’ and the clouds which close

With thickening canopy the conflict o’er,

Vibrate to the Eternal name. Hark through

All sounds it pierceth, ‘Allah! Allah! Hu!’”

Don Juan, viii. 8.