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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 The antique vest or beard.