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The following ballads are not translations from the Spanish, but are founded upon some of the 'wild and wonderful' traditions preserved in the romances of that language, and the ancient poem of the Cid.

sixty knights in his gallant train, Went forth the Campeador of Spain; For wild sierras and plains afar, He left the lands of his own Bivar1.

To march o'er field, and to watch in tent, From his home in good Castile he went; To the wasting siege and the battle's van, —For the noble Cid was a banish'd man!