THE DUKE DE RIVAS.
THE ALCAZAR OF SEVILLE
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I.
Magnificent is the Alcazar,
For which Seville is renown'd,
Delicious are its gardens,
With its lofty portals crown'd.
With woods all carved elaborate,
In a thousand forms about,
It raises high its noble front
With cornice jutting out;
And there in ancient characters
A tablet may be seen,
Don Pedro built these palaces,
The sculptures placed between.
But ill beseem in its saloons
The modern triflings reared,
And in its proud courts men without