Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and Holland: Vols. XIV–XV. 1876–79. | | | | Spain: Valladolid | | Valladolid | | Luis de Góngora (1561–1627) |
| | Translated by Edward Churton
VALLADOLID, thou art the Vale of Tears; | |
| Whose are the eyes that weep, I need not say; | |
| The Vale of Josaphat for gloom all day, | |
| A gloom which light of judgment never clears: | |
| A sham each hearer deems it, when he hears | 5 |
| That thou dost hold Spain’s Court; he wonders how | |
| Thy burly form should play the courtier now, | |
| Who wast so fine a clown in other years. | |
| Thy titled Counts we know them to our cost, | |
| Well may the Andalusian say, who rests | 10 |
| In lodging dark as purgatory-shade; | |
| While no good Earl of Fairlight plays the host, | |
| But evermore Lord Knox, and, winter guests, | |
| Count Rainham, Snowdown, and Lord Slough and Slade. | | | | |
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