Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and Holland: Vols. XIV–XV. 1876–79. | | | | Spain: Covadonga | | The Shrine | | Robert Southey (1774–1843) |
| | (From Roderick and Siverian)
O HOLIEST Mary, maid and mother! thou | |
| In Covadonga, at thy rocky shrine, | |
| Hast witnessed whatsoe’er of human bliss | |
| Heart can conceive most perfect! Faithful love, | |
| Long crost by envious stars, hath there attained | 5 |
| Its crown, in endless matrimony given; | |
| The youthful mother there hath to the font | |
| Her first-born borne, and there, with deeper sense | |
| Of gratitude for that dear babe redeemed | |
| From threatening death, returned to pay her vows. | 10 | | | |
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