The Lay of the Cid Year: ca. 1195–1207
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The Lay of the CidYEAR: ca. 1195–1207
Cantar I: The Banishment of the Cid
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He turned and looked upon them, and he wept very sore As he saw the yawning gateway and the hasps wrenched off the door, And the pegs whereon no mantle nor coat of vair there hung. There perched no moulting goshawk, and there no falcon swung. My lord the Cid sighed deeply such grief was in his heart And he spake well and wisely: “Oh Thou, in Heaven that art Our Father and our Master, now I give thanks to Thee.

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