With light to linger night and day,
And charms divine as thine to me,
The dream that came to rival thee.
FOOTNOTES
[1] “A thoroughly national hotel ... I look down from my window through marble colonnades ... perfumed with the scent of ... trees, which bend ... over a richly sculptured fountain.”—Hare’s Wanderings in Spain, pp. 93, 94.
[2] Instruments found everywhere in Spain.
[3] “The bridge over the Guadalquivir ... composed of sixteen arches ... very picturesque ... built by Octavius Cæsar.”—O’Shea’s Guide to Spain.
[4] “What spot can be more delightful than the grand old court, surrounded by flame-shaped battlements ... beneath huge orange trees planted some three hundred years ago.”—Hare’s Wanderings in Spain, p. 88.
[5] “From the court you step with bewilderment into a roofed-in forest of pillars ... amid the thousand still remaining columns of varied color, thickness, and material, which divide the building into twenty-nine naves one way and nineteen the other. Into the midst of all a cathedral was engrafted in 1547.” (It was built originally for a mosk.)—Idem, p. 89.
[6] Gonsalvo de Cordova, called “the great captain,” born 1443.