Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and Holland: Vols. XIV–XV. 1876–79. | | | | Spain: Alhama | | Romance | | From the Spanish |
| | Guerras de Granada
Translated by John Bowring
“MOORISH warden, Moorish warden, | |
| Grisly-bearded captain; thou,— | |
| The king has ordered thee to prison, | |
| Thou hast lost Alhama now.” | |
| “If thou hast the kingly order, | 5 |
| Unresisting will I go,— | |
| ’T was not I who lost Alhama, | |
| ’T was not I who lost it,—no! | |
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| “I was far away, in Ronda, | |
| At my cousin’s wedding feast, | 10 |
| And I left it safely guarded, | |
| Guarded by the noblest, best. | |
| If the king have lost the city, | |
| I have lost far more, far more,— | |
| I have lost my wife and children, | 15 |
| All I loved,—and now deplore.” | | | | |
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