Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and Holland: Vols. XIV–XV. 1876–79. | | | | Spain: Granada | | The Monte Santo at Granada | | Luis de Góngora (1561–1627) |
| | Translated by Edward Churton
BEHOLD this mount with beaming crosses crowned, | |
| Like Mongibel or Etna through the night | |
| It burns, but with a holier, softer light, | |
| A light to comfort, not a fire to wound; | |
| Faith rears her trophies here on sacred ground, | 5 |
| Not like those piles upheaved in heaven’s despite, | |
| Beneath whose wrecks, as fabling poets write, | |
| Groaning and crushed the giant brood lies bound. | |
| Yet giants here too rest; these caverns rude | |
| Confine their forms; whose holy force made head | 10 |
| Against high heaven, and heaven at will subdued; | |
| Here o’er their hallowed bones meek pilgrims tread; | |
| If tears be thine, check not the gracious mood, | |
| And with soft steps revere the mighty dead. | | | | |
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