Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and Holland: Vols. XIV–XV. 1876–79. | | | | Spain: Cordova | | The Cathedral | | Joseph Ellis |
| | | AS in a forest seeming infinite, | |
| A portal and an altar everywhere, | |
| The soul is moved to lofty thought, and prayer | |
| Unto the Omnipresent One of might, | |
| So had the pious Moslem purpose right, | 5 |
| Who did at Cordova this temple raise; | |
| For when he wandered in the vasty maze | |
| Of columns rich, in every hue bedight, | |
| He knew no spot where he must offer praise, | |
| Nor where he last was prostrate, nor the door | 10 |
| Wherethrough he gained the labyrinthine floor, | |
| Unnoting which, among the nineteen ways; | |
| Nor found he there incitement to adore, | |
| Than as the thankful heart its homage pays. | | | | |
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