Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and Holland: Vols. XIV–XV. 1876–79. | | | | Spain: Saragossa (Zaragoza; Sansueña) | | Zaragoza | | William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
| | | HAIL, Zaragoza! If with unwet eye | |
| We can approach, thy sorrow to behold, | |
| Yet is the heart not pitiless nor cold; | |
| Such spectacle demands not tear or sigh. | |
| Those desolate remains are trophies high | 5 |
| Of more than martial courage in the breast | |
| Of peaceful civic virtue: they attest | |
| Thy matchless worth to all posterity. | |
| Blood flowed before thy sight without remorse; | |
| Disease consumed thy vitals; war upheaved | 10 |
| The ground beneath thee with volcanic force: | |
| Dread trials! yet encountered and sustained | |
| Till not a wreck of help or hope remained, | |
| And law was from necessity received. | | | | |
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