The Alhambra / being a brief record of the Arabian conquest of the Peninsula with a particular account of the Mohammedan architecture and decoration

by Albert Frederick Calvert

“And for this, oh king! is sent
On thee a double chastisement:
Thee and thine, thy crown and realm,
One last wreck shall overwhelm.
Woe is me, Alhama!”

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With the loss of the two “Keys” to Granada—Loja and Alhama—both being forthwith heavily garrisoned by the

HALL OF THE ABENCERRAGES.

WOODEN DOOR, HALL OF THE ABENCERRAGES.