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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409396" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Castles In Spain. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The Fifth)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">How much of my young heart, O Spain,<br>Went out to thee in days of yore!<br>What dreams romantic filled my brain,<br>And summoned back to life again<br>The Paladins of Charlemagne,<br>The Cid Campeador! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And shapes more shadowy than these,<br>In the dim twilight half revealed;<br>Phoenician galleys on the seas,<br>The Roman camps like hives of bees,<br>The Goth uplifting from his knees<br>Pelayo on his shield. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was these memories perchance,<br>From annals of remotest eld,<br>That lent the colors of romance<br>To every trivial circumstance,<br>And changed the form and countenance<br>Of all that I beheld. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Old towns, whose history lies hid<br>In monkish chronicle or rhyme,--<br>Burgos, the birthplace of the Cid,<br>Zamora and Valladolid,<br>Toledo, built and walled amid<br>The wars of Wamba's time; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The long, straight line of the highway,<br>The distant town that seems so near,<br>The peasants in the fields, that stay<br>Their toil to cross themselves and pray,<br>When from the belfry at midday<br>The Angelus they hear; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">White crosses in the mountain pass,<br>Mules gay with tassels, the loud din<br>Of muleteers, the tethered ass<br>That crops the dusty wayside grass,<br>And cavaliers with spurs of brass<br>Alighting at the inn; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">White hamlets hidden in fields of wheat,<br>White cities slumbering by the sea,<br>White sunshine flooding square and street,<br>Dark mountain ranges, at whose feet<br>The river beds are dry with heat,--<br>All was a dream to me. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet something sombre and severe<br>O'er the enchanted landscape reigned;<br>A terror in the atmosphere<br>As if King Philip listened near,<br>Or Torquemada, the austere,<br>His ghostly sway maintained. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The softer Andalusian skies<br>Dispelled the sadness and the gloom;<br>There Cadiz by the seaside lies,<br>And Seville's orange-orchards rise,<br>Making the land a paradise<br>Of beauty and of bloom. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">There Cordova is hidden among<br>The palm, the olive, and the vine;<br>Gem of the South, by poets sung,<br>And in whose Mosque Ahmanzor hung<br>As lamps the bells that once had rung<br>At Compostella's shrine. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But over all the rest supreme,<br>The star of stars, the cynosure,<br>The artist's and the poet's theme,<br>The young man's vision, the old man's dream,--<br>Granada by its winding stream,<br>The city of the Moor! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And there the Alhambra still recalls<br>Aladdin's palace of delight;<br>Allah il Allah! through its halls<br>Whispers the fountain as it falls,<br>The Darro darts beneath its walls,<br>The hills with snow are white. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah yes, the hills are white with snow,<br>And cold with blasts that bite and freeze;<br>But in the happy vale below<br>The orange and pomegranate grow,<br>And wafts of air toss to and fro<br>The blossoming almond trees. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Vega cleft by the Xenil,<br>The fascination and allure<br>Of the sweet landscape chains the will;<br>The traveller lingers on the hill,<br>His parted lips are breathing still<br>The last sigh of the Moor. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">How like a ruin overgrown<br>With flowers that hide the rents of time,<br>Stands now the Past that I have known;<br>Castles in Spain, not built of stone<br>But of white summer clouds, and blown<br>Into this little mist of rhyme!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Wadsworth+Longfellow">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</a><div class=q>
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Went out to thee in days of yore!
What dreams romantic filled my brain,
And summoned back to life again
The Paladins of Charlemagne,
The Cid Campeador! 

And shapes more shadowy than these,
In the dim twilight ..."></div>
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