Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and Holland: Vols. XIV–XV. 1876–79.
Sevilla
By Joseph EllisI
The towers and flowers of fair Sevilla;
Her sun and shade and busy ways
Graced by the Doñas in mantilla;
Her grand Cathedral’s solemn gloom:
Her zephyrs sweet with orange-bloom;
Her patios cool with pure azúl,
And all her Moorish maravilla;
But chief in memory will rule
(As far above as great Orion!)
A sprite or bird
Which there I heard;
An English tongue,
That spake or sung
In simple sooth
Or careless truth,—
The clear, frank laugh of Dame Carlyon!