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Updated: June 29, 2025
The Moor at the first encounter reeled To earth, from his saddle bow; And the Christian knight, dismounting, Set heel on the neck of his foe. He cleft his head from his shoulders, And, marshalling his train, Made haste once more on his journey Across Toledo's plain.
As regards painting, one artist's life is wrapped up in that of the wonderful city on the Tago; many of his masterworks are to be seen in Toledo's churches and in the provincial museum. I refer to Domenico Theotocopuli, he who was considered a madman because he was a genius, and who has been called el Greco when really he ought to have been called el Toledano.
Upon a flowering almond-tree He fixed an ardent gaze; Its leaves were withered with the wind That flowers in ruin lays. Thus in Toledo's garden park, Did Abenamar wait, Who for fair Galliana Watched at the palace gate. The birds that clustered on the towers Spread out their wings to fly, And from afar his lady's veil He saw go floating by.
The cloisters are everywhere interesting to loiter in, but their chief fame is derived from the Spanish Chapel, which gained that name when in 1566 it was put at the disposal of Eleanor of Toledo's suite on the occasion of her marriage to Cosimo I. Nothing Spanish about it otherwise. Both structure and frescoes belong to the fourteenth century.
Upon Toledo's loftiest towers Sevilla kept the height; So wondrous fair was she that love Was blinded at the sight. She stood amid the battlements, And gazed upon the scene Where Tagus runs through woodland And flowers and glades of green. And she saw upon the wide highway The figure of a knight; He rode upon a dappled steed, And all his arms were bright.
Don Pedro de Toledo's mission in regard to the Spanish marriages had failed because Henry had spurned the condition which was unequivocally attached to them on the part of Spain, the king's renunciation of his alliance with the Dutch Republic, which then seemed an equivalent to its ruin.
'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 now she landward turned her eye to gaze on waste and wood, But in all that lay around her she sought for rest in vain, For her heart, her heart was aching, and she could not heal the pain.
Such was Zulema, such was he, the warrior of renown, The son of that Zulema who ruled Toledo's town. Ah! bright the fame the father left, for it shall never die The glory of his greater son shall keep its memory. Now once it happened that he reached a city's towering gate; 'Twas Avila, and there that day the games they celebrate.
But to their good-natured, conceited minds it meant only that she was confused, and unable to decide, and unlimited betting was done, to be settled upon the retirement of either of the contestants. And while patriotic feeling influenced the odds rather in Toledo's favor, it was fairly admitted that the Frenchman was a formidable rival.
'Do you mean red ants or black ants? And I seen that a spark had touched Toledo's brainbox and that he was wrastlin' with somethin' that felt like thinkin'. "'Either, my brother, says the hoss-faced guy, smilin' clear up to his back teeth. "'Well, you're drawin' your dope from the wrong can, says Toledo, shufflin' for the door.
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