II + 

Alhambra + 

Gods of the silence, still remembering + 

The dying echoes of her lute, bemoan, + 

In canticles of golden monotone, + 

Her Orient splendor too soon vanishing; + 

And while lions guard her courts, grey eagles wing + 

Around her turquoise domes, and seedlings blown + 

From distant lands to her hushed fountains cling, + 

Yea, and the sun himself sits in her throne. + 

Time, once her vassal, lingers near the streams + 

That woo the shadows of her crumbling walls, + 

And, musing of Alhambra’s glory, dreams + 

Of Elegance and Power in Myrtle Halls;⁠— + 

Arabia, once counted of the strong, + 

Is but a sigh in Andalusia’s song. + 