Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and Holland: Vols. XIV–XV. 1876–79. | | | | Spain: Roncesvalles | | There Are Sounds in the Dark Roncesvalles | | Felicia Hemans (1793–1835) |
| | | THERE are sounds in the dark Roncesvalles, | |
| There are echoes on Biscay’s wild shore; | |
| There are murmurs, but not of the torrent, | |
| Nor the wind, nor the pine-forest’s roar. | |
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| ’T is a day of the spear and the banner, | 5 |
| Of armings and hurried farewells; | |
| Rise, rise on your mountains, ye Spaniards! | |
| Or start from your old battle dells. | |
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| There are streams of unconquered Asturias | |
| That have rolled with your fathers’ free blood; | 10 |
| O, leave on the graves of the mighty | |
| Proud marks where thy children have stood! | | | | |
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