Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and Holland: Vols. XIV–XV. 1876–79. | | | | Spain: Cordova | | Praise of Cordova | | Luis de Góngora (1561–1627) |
| | Translated by Edward Churton
YE lofty walls and towers, exalted hold | |
| Of honor, princely state, and knightly worth, | |
| Where Guadalquivir, like a king, goes forth, | |
| Of nobler name than streams with sands of gold; | |
| And thou, fair plain, and stately mountains old, | 5 |
| Which heaven indulgent hangs with wreaths of light; | |
| My land forever loved, in glory bright, | |
| The Muses’ bower, and nurse of warriors bold: | |
| If e’er amidst these wrecks and spoils of Time, | |
| Where Genil’s arrowy waves and Darro roar, | 10 |
| Thy memory fill not still my mind’s glad eye, | |
| Banish me, Fate, for such forgetful crime | |
| From thy fair towers and river rolling by, | |
| Thy palmy plain, thy glens and mountains hoar. | | | | |
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