Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and Holland: Vols. XIV–XV. 1876–79.
Cadiz
By William Gibson (1826–1887)F
Thy graceful mansions more than marble white,
Art thou a city of alabaster bright,
Hewn from one rock? From the Czarina flown
Are icy palaces these? But, like thine own
Queen votive rising, ravishing the sight,
From ocean,—hail, O Summer of Delight,
Loosed for no frost-couch the voluptuous zone!
Dangerous the blush of Andalusian even
To youth, that on thine Alameda loiters,
Where, warm as Houris of an Eastern heaven,
Through flower-walks undulate thy dark-eyed daughters,
A glow more mantling by the sea-breeze given,
As love’s sweet star stoops rosy to the conscious waters!