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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Castilian noblemen
And many knights beside.
For keeping of their vow
Like brethren they ride.
For a moment the crusading spirit has
returned again; but the piece is a little
artificial, like the ideals, and refers to
Charlemagne, Oliver and Roland, and
recalls, to its own disadvantage, the heroic
age. Notwithstanding, it can stir the blood
like the shrilling of trumpets and kettle-
drums, as for instance in the passage where
the whole army intones the Salve Regina,
or that where the King waits for dawn,
lying on his bed not coveting wealth but
longing for the day that shall show him
the enemy, stretched out with passion
at heart, like a couchant lion, and praying
for the light, till the planets finish their
course and twilight begins, and dawn comes,
and the light brightens, and the King
makes a prayer.
More often, however, it stays at the
ballad level:
A right
epical
passage
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