Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and Holland: Vols. XIV–XV. 1876–79. | | | | Spain: Baeza | | Romance | | From the Spanish |
| | Guerras de Granada
Translated by John Bowring
MOORISH soldiers, Moorish soldiers, | |
| Ye on whom my bounty showers, | |
| Go and raze the proud Baeza, | |
| Spite of all Baeza’s towers; | |
| Give them up to cruel slaughter; | 5 |
| Fill the plain with mourning weeds; | |
| Mothers, sires, and youths, and virgins, | |
| Tie them to your furious steeds; | |
| But old Pedro Dias’ daughter, | |
| For she is my mistress, spare, | 10 |
| And with Leonor her sister, | |
| And their train, bring safely here. | |
| You, my captain,—you, Vanegas, | |
| Bring her with all honor due; | |
| ’T is to you that I commit her, | 15 |
| For you are both brave and true, | |
| And I charge you, treat her nobly,— | |
| Let her not complain of you. | | | | |
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