Crossword-Solution: ATABALS 7 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Children shall beat our atabals and drums; And all the noisy trades of war no more Shall wake the peaceful morn.” --DRYDEN.

CHAPTER XX OTOMIE’S COUNSEL On the day after the return of Cortes to Mexico, before the hour of dawn I was awakened from my uneasy slumbers by the whistling cries of thousands of warriors and the sound of _atabals_ and drums.

But no sooner did the sun appear than the Crusaders raised their war-cry, and the Turks sounded their trumpets and atabals,--a mutual challenge to renew the sanguinary conflict.

Mol._ Our armours now may rust; our idle scymiters Hang by our sides for ornament, not use: Children shall beat our atabals and drums, And all the noisy trades of war no more Shall wake the peaceful morn; the Xeriff's blood No longer in divided channels runs, The younger house took end in Mahomet: Nor shall Sebastian's formidable name Be longer used to lull the crying babe.

Then far away a murmur trailed,-- As of sad seas on cavern'd shores,-- That grew into a voice that wailed, "They come! they come! the Moors! the Moors!" And with deep boom of atabals And crash of cymbals and wild peal Of battle-bugles, from its walls An army rushed in glimmering steel.