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ALGECIRAS SEEN OVER A STORMY SEA by IBN MALIK OF GRANADA

First Line: AT CEUTA I CAST ASIDE
Last Line: YET SO FAR TO CAPTURE.
Subject(s): ALGECIRAS (CITY), SPAIN;
At Ceuta I cast aside
The saddle of my roaming,
And hoped a smoother tide
Of fortune might be coming.

My covert I did see,
Har Algeciras city;
The waves prevented me
To hunt her fawns so pretty.

As in a mirror clear
A lovely face with rapture
Is glimpsed so near, so near,
Yet so far to capture.



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