THE BLAZON OF ABENAMAR

By gloomy fortune overcast,

Vassal of one he held in scorn,

Complaining of the wintry world,

And by his lady left forlorn,

The wretched Abenamar mourned,

Because his country was unkind,

Had brought him to a lot of woe,

And to a foreign home resigned.

A stranger Moor had won the throne,