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SONGS OF THE AFFECTIONS.
THE KING OF ARRAGON'S LAMENT FOR HIS BROTHER.[1]
If I could see him, it were well with me!
Coleridge's Wallenstein.
There were lights and sounds of revelling in the vanquish'd city's halls,
As by night the feast of victory was held within its walls;
- ↑ The grief of Ferdinand, King of Arragon, for the loss of his brother, Don Pedro, who was killed during the siege of Naples, is affectingly described by the historian Mariana. It is also the subject of one of the old Spanish Ballads in Lockhart's beautiful collection.
