Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and Holland: Vols. XIV–XV. 1876–79. | | | | Spain: Madrid | | Madrid | | Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) |
| | Anonymous translation
THE CAPITAL of Spain,—O no! | |
| For in thee there is nothing seen | |
| Of what characterizes her,— | |
| There is no likeness left, I ween. | |
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| One is in Paris, or Vienna, | 5 |
| But sure no longer in bright Spain; | |
| Here the sharp northern blasts prevail,— | |
| Here there is cold and snow and rain. | |
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| Our dark November days no more, | |
| Our northern climate, will I blame; | 10 |
| For—to the rest of Spain unlike— | |
| Dreary Madrid has just the same! | | | | |
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