Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and Holland: Vols. XIV–XV. 1876–79. | | | | Spain: Granada | | Auto de la Fé at Granada | | Luis de Góngora (1561–1627) |
| | Translated by Edward Churton
A TIMBER-FRAME, of fashion new and rare, | |
| Which served a spacious scaffold high to raise, | |
| Whereat Granada’s cross-grained crowd made gaze, | |
| Thronging through mist and rain the spongy Square; | |
| Some fifty womankind, not chaste, nor fair, | 5 |
| Born of his race, of whom the Text-Book says, | |
| Dry-shod he crossed the sea in Pharaoh’s days; | |
| A lawyer,—what strange quirks had brought him there?— | |
| Two lewd ones; six blasphemers; one vile friar, | |
| Who madly took, more madly broke, his vow; | 10 |
| Another blind as he, nor more worth pity; | |
| Five effigies of dead men borne in show,— | |
| One only sent alive, to feed the fire;— | |
| Made up Faith’s Stage-Play in Granada city. | | | | |
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