King, Georgiana Goddard: A brief account of the military orders in Spain (New York: The Hispanic Society of America, 1921)

IN SPAIN
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kissed the dust from his tomb in Aghmat;
the Berbers had sacked the cities and from
Morocco Almoravides had ruled; the
Almohades now reigned throughout Anda-
lusia. Though ravished by the African,
still Cordova was fair beyond comparison,
musical with poets and fountains, fragrant
with heavy flowers and pale women, rich
in all the arts of life, and the subtilties of
the doctors: A verroes was there.
The memory of it, doubtless, was still
fresh for these four red-crossed veterans
on their return, sitting silent, in white, at
the long table among their sunburnt mates,
while under the heavy arched vault of
brooding Romanesque stone-work the lec-
tor’s voice rolled on in Latin as intelli-
gible to them as their yet-hardly-altered
Romance speech, and the strange shrill
Arabic of the court-poets was hardly out
of their ears—for instance, that couplet:
They passed with ceremony and with
song,
With clouds about their feet they passed
along.
The
Cordovan
civilization
The
convent life
AND MONOGRAPHS