Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and Holland: Vols. XIV–XV. 1876–79. | | | | Spain: Seville | | Sevilla | | Joseph Ellis |
| | | IN after-days I oft shall praise | |
| The towers and flowers of fair Sevilla; | |
| Her sun and shade and busy ways | |
| Graced by the Doñas in mantilla; | |
| Her grand Cathedral’s solemn gloom: | 5 |
| Her zephyrs sweet with orange-bloom; | |
| Her patios cool with pure azúl, | |
| And all her Moorish maravilla; | |
| But chief in memory will rule | |
| (As far above as great Orion!) | 10 |
| A sprite or bird | |
| Which there I heard; | |
| An English tongue, | |
| That spake or sung | |
| In simple sooth | 15 |
| Or careless truth,— | |
| The clear, frank laugh of Dame Carlyon! | | | | |
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