Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and Holland: Vols. XIV–XV. 1876–79.
There Are Sounds in the Dark Roncesvalles
By Felicia Hemans (17931835)T
There are echoes on Biscay’s wild shore;
There are murmurs, but not of the torrent,
Nor the wind, nor the pine-forest’s roar.
Of armings and hurried farewells;
Rise, rise on your mountains, ye Spaniards!
Or start from your old battle dells.
That have rolled with your fathers’ free blood;
O, leave on the graves of the mighty
Proud marks where thy children have stood!