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was a chieftain’s daughter, and he a captive boy, Yet playmates and companions they shared each childish joy; Their dark hair often mingled, they wandered hand in hand, But at last the golden ransom restored him to his land. A lovely town is Seville amid the summer air, But, though it be a little town, Xenilla is as fair; Fair are the glittering minarets where the purple daylight falls, And rosy the pomegranates of the gardens in its walls.

But its pleasant days are over, for an army girds it round,