Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and Holland: Vols. XIV–XV. 1876–79. | | | | Spain: Segovia | | My Soul Is in Madrid | | Alonso de Ledesma (c. 1562–1623) |
| | Translated by John Bowring
HOW can I live, fair planet! | |
| From all thy lustre hid? | |
| My body ’s in Segovia, | |
| My soul is in Madrid. | |
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| I ’m left alone in darkness, | 5 |
| At every gust’s control, | |
| In sorrow and in nakedness, | |
| Without or sense or soul. | |
| Yet o’er my spirit’s desert | |
| There towers a pyramid | 10 |
| With hopes of glory lighted: | |
| Despair must be forbid; | |
| My body ’s in Segovia, | |
| My soul is in Madrid. | | | | |
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