One magnificent period in literature unfolded itself in the eleventh century A.D., in the little courts of Seville, of Murcie, of Malaga, Valence, Toledo, and Badajos.

There is among them one which treats of the adventures of Don Rodrigues, the last king of the Visigoths"The Closed House of Toledo."

" THE INFANTA SEVILLA AND PERANZUELOS Upon Toledo's loftiest towers Sevilla kept the height; So wondrous fair was she that love Was blinded at the sight.

He cleft his head from his shoulders, And, marshalling his train, Made haste once more on his journey Across Toledo's plain.

For I called, and yet thou didst not answer me." THE JEALOUS KING 'Twas eight stout warriors matched with eight, and ten with valiant ten, As Aliatare formed a band allied with Moslem men, To joust, with loaded canes, that day in proud Toledo's ring, Against proud Adelifa's host before their lord the King.

"Alas for thee, Toledo!

And Tagus gently murmurs in his billows fresh and free And hastens from Toledo to reach the mighty sea.

Such was Zulema, such was he, the warrior of renown, The son of that Zulema who ruled Toledo's town.

ZAIDA OF TOLEDO Upon a gilded balcony, which decked a mansion high, A place where ladies kept their watch on every passer-by, While Tagus with a murmur mild his gentle waters drew To touch the mighty buttress with waves so bright and blue, Stands Zaida, radiant in her charms, the flower of Moorish maids,

Thus in Toledo's garden park, Did Abenamar wait, Who for fair Galliana Watched at the palace gate.

THE CAPTIVE OF TOLEDO Upon the loftiest mountain height That rises in its pride,

Thou who hast succored many a knight, Hast thou no help for me, Who languish on Toledo's height In captive misery? 'Tis on thy world-wide chivalry I base my word of blame, 'Tis that I love thee most of all, Thy coldness brings me shame.

" THE AGED LOVER 'Twas from a lofty balcony Arselia looked down On golden Tagus' crystal stream that hemmed Toledo's town; And now she watched the eddies that dimpled in the flood

And never at Almanzor's court had he for honor sought, Though he dwelt in high Toledo in fair Arselia's thought;

And while he fain would hide his pain he paces up and down Before the palace turrets that Toledo's rampart crown.

He rides not now as he was wont, when ye have seen him speed To the field of gay Toledo, to fling his lusty reed; No gambeson of silk is on, nor rich embroidery Of gold-wrought robe or turbannor jewelled tahali.

Toledo, Seville and Salamanca, became the greatest schools of magic.

You ordered it yourself from Toledo.

She's been livin' in Toledo, these ten year.

Rachel's father an' mother both died, about the time we had our first boy,him that you seen,an' she went off to Toledo, we heerd, an' hired out to do sewin'.

Next year, when our second boy died, frightened and worried to death, I believe, though he was scrawny enough when he was born, I took some money I'd saved to buy a yoke of oxen, an' went to Toledo o' purpose to see Rachel.

After visiting Terre Haute, the next point to which business called me, on the homeward route, was Cleveland; and by giving an additional day to the journey, I could easily take Toledo on my way.

Between memory and expectation the time passed rapidly, and a week later I registered my name at the Island House, Toledo.

With the extension of our business, and the increasing calls upon my time during my Western journeys, it was three years before I again found myself in Toledo, with sufficient leisure to repeat my visit.

It surpasses in beauty and strength the Kremlin at Moscow, the Tower of London, the citadel at Toledo and every other fortress I know of.