Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and Holland: Vols. XIV–XV. 1876–79. | | | | Spain: Granada | | The Muleteers of Granada | | Thomas Moore (1779–1852) |
| | | O THE JOYS of our evening posada, | |
| Where, resting at close of day, | |
| We, young muleteers of Granada, | |
| Sit and sing the sunshine away; | |
| So merry that even the slumbers, | 5 |
| That round us hung, seem gone: | |
| Till the lute’s soft drowsy numbers | |
| Again beguile them on. | |
| O the joys of our merry posada, | |
| Where, resting at close of day, | 10 |
| We, young muleteers of Granada, | |
| Thus sing the gay moments away. | |
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| Then as each to his loved sultana | |
| In sleep still breathes the sigh, | |
| The name of some black-eyed Tirana | 15 |
| Escapes our lips as we lie. | |
| Till, with morning’s rosy twinkle, | |
| Again we ’re up and gone,— | |
| While the mule-bell’s drowsy tinkle | |
| Beguiles the rough way on. | 20 |
| O, the joys, etc. | | | | |
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