Iberia Won; A poem descriptive of the Peninsular War / With impressions from recent visits to the battle-grounds, and copious historical and illustrative notes

by T. M. Hughes

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Far sunnier Isles the South make glad,

From Palma’s gulf to the Ægean;

Idalia rose and myrtle clad,

Sicilian shores, and bowers Dictæan;

The Cyclades that shine to snare,

From Lemnos old to Rhodes romantic;

And far Funchál, whose balmy air

Swells earth’s best vine ’mid the Atlantic.