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VERY MOURNFUL BALLAD ON THE SIEGE AND CONQUEST OF ALHAMA by UNKNOWN

First Line: THE MOORISH KING RIDES UP AND DOWN
Last Line: WOE IS ME, ALHAMA!
Subject(s): COURTS AND COURTIERS; MOURNING;

Poem Sources:

HISPANIC ANTHOLOGY; POEMS TRANSLATED FROM THE SPANISH BY ENGLISH AND NORTH AMERICAN POETS, COLLECTED AND ARRANGED BY THOMAS WALSH.
  WALSH, THOMAS (ED.)
  (1920)
 



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