Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and Holland: Vols. XIV–XV. 1876–79.
Leon
By Robert Southey (1774–1843)(From Written on Christmas Day, 1795)
A
I journey o’er the desert mountain track
Of Leon: wilds all drear and comfortless,
Where the gray lizards in the noontide sun,
Sport on their rocks, and where the goatherd starts,
Roused from his midnight sleep, and shakes to hear
The wolf’s loud yell, and falters as he calls
On saints to save.