Would dream the Lady's Dream!
[THE KEY.]
A MOORISH ROMANCE.
"On the east coast, towards Tunis, the Moors still preserve the key of their ancestors' houses in Spain; to which country they still express the hopes of one day returning and again planting the crescent on the ancient walls of the Alhambra."—SCOTT'S Travels in Morocco and Algiers.
"Is Spain cloven in such a manner as to want closing?"
SANCHO PANZA.
The Moor leans on his cushion,
With the pipe between his lips;
And still at frequent intervals
The sweet sherbét he sips;
But, spite of lulling vapor
And the sober cooling cup,