"Moorish warden, Moorish warden,
Grisly-bcardcd captain; thou,—
The king has ordered thee to prison.
Thou hast lost Alhama now."
"If tliou hast the kingly order.
Unresisting will I go,—
'T was not I who lost Alhama,
'T was not I who lost it, —no!
"I was far away, in Ronda,
At my cousin's wedding feast,
And I left it safely guarded,
Guarded by the noblest, best.
If the king have lost the city,
I have lost far more, far more,—
I have lost my wife and children,
All I loved, —and now deplore."