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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and Holland: Vols. XIV–XV. 1876–79.

Spain: Segovia

My Soul Is in Madrid

By Alonso de Ledesma (c. 1562–1623)

HOW can I live, fair planet!

From all thy lustre hid?

My body ’s in Segovia,

My soul is in Madrid.

I ’m left alone in darkness,

At every gust’s control,

In sorrow and in nakedness,

Without or sense or soul.

Yet o’er my spirit’s desert

There towers a pyramid

With hopes of glory lighted:

Despair must be forbid;

My body ’s in Segovia,

My soul is in Madrid.