Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and Holland: Vols. XIV–XV. 1876–79. | | | | Spain: Escurial (Escorial), the | | The Escorial | | Luis de Góngora (1561–1627) |
| | Translated by Edward Churton
THIS gorgeous sacred dome,—no pile profane,— | |
| Whose glories leave the clouds of morn outdone, | |
| Flouting the sun-rays, where in dazzling stone | |
| The columns rise like giants from the plain, | |
| Provokes no wrath from heaven, no jealous pain | 5 |
| In day’s bright lord. The splendor but makes known | |
| A temple reared to Spain’s great martyred son | |
| By the great king of ever-faithful Spain. | |
| A great religion works this marvel rare, | |
| Meet for the monarch, whose unquestioned sway | 10 |
| The new-found West and Eastern Indians own: | |
| Stern Fate, be gentle: Time, the beauty spare | |
| Of this eighth wonder; spare for many a day | |
| In peaceful age our second Solomon. | | | | |
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