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Page 127
... star was on the wane , Eclipsed the Paynim powers , And the haughty lord of Christian Spain , Besieged Granada's towers : Gonsalvo , with a hundred knights Of Leon's chivalrie , BOOK OF POETRY . 127 The Captive of Alhama.
... star was on the wane , Eclipsed the Paynim powers , And the haughty lord of Christian Spain , Besieged Granada's towers : Gonsalvo , with a hundred knights Of Leon's chivalrie , BOOK OF POETRY . 127 The Captive of Alhama.
Page 128
... Granada was my aim , - Woe , woe the luckless day ! For had I in my journey sped To Darro's rushing water , This morn Zorayda I had wed , Granada's fairest daughter . " If pity then , or love's sweet power , E'er touch'd thy gallant ...
... Granada was my aim , - Woe , woe the luckless day ! For had I in my journey sped To Darro's rushing water , This morn Zorayda I had wed , Granada's fairest daughter . " If pity then , or love's sweet power , E'er touch'd thy gallant ...
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... Granada's noblest daughter ! RUSSELL . THE HAPPIEST TIME . WHEN are we happiest - when the light of morn Wakes the young roses from their crimson rest ; When cheerful sounds , upon the fresh winds borne , Tell man resumes his work with ...
... Granada's noblest daughter ! RUSSELL . THE HAPPIEST TIME . WHEN are we happiest - when the light of morn Wakes the young roses from their crimson rest ; When cheerful sounds , upon the fresh winds borne , Tell man resumes his work with ...
Page 140
... Granada's darling knight . for Celin ! " ' Alas ! alas , Before him ride his vassals , in order two by two , With ashes on their turbans spread , most pitiful to view ; Behind him his four sisters , each wrapt in sable 140 YOUNG LADY'S ...
... Granada's darling knight . for Celin ! " ' Alas ! alas , Before him ride his vassals , in order two by two , With ashes on their turbans spread , most pitiful to view ; Behind him his four sisters , each wrapt in sable 140 YOUNG LADY'S ...
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... Granada's youth , the loveliest of them all ; His dark , dark eyes are closed , and his rosy lip is pale , The crust of blood lies black and dim upon his burnish'd mail , And evermore the hoarse tambour breaks in upon their wailing ...
... Granada's youth , the loveliest of them all ; His dark , dark eyes are closed , and his rosy lip is pale , The crust of blood lies black and dim upon his burnish'd mail , And evermore the hoarse tambour breaks in upon their wailing ...
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