Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and Holland: Vols. XIV–XV. 1876–79. | | | | Spain: Saragossa (Zaragoza; Sansueña) | | Zaragoza | | Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) |
| | (From The Vision of Don Roderick)
THEN Zaragoza,—blighted be the tongue | |
| That names thy name without the honor due! | |
| For never hath the harp of minstrel rung, | |
| Of faith so felly proved, so firmly true! | |
| Mine, sap, and bomb thy shattered ruins knew, | 5 |
| Each art of war’s extremity had room, | |
| Twice from thy half-sacked streets the foe withdrew, | |
| And when at length stern Fate decreed thy doom, | |
| They won not Zaragoza, but her children’s bloody tomb. | |
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| Yet raise thy head, sad city! Though in chains, | 10 |
| Enthralled thou canst not be! Arise and claim | |
| Reverence from every heart where freedom reigns, | |
| For what thou worshippest!—thy sainted dame, | |
| She of the column, honored be her name, | |
| By all, whate’er their creed, who honor love! | 15 |
| And like the sacred relics of the flame, | |
| That gave some martyr to the blessed above, | |
| To every loyal heart may thy sad embers prove! | | | | |
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