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TOLEDO CAPTURED BY THE FRANKS by AL-ASSAL

First Line: MEN OF ANDALUS, TO HORSE!
Last Line: FROM THE MIDDLE WRESTED.
Subject(s): TOLEDO, SPAIN;

Men of Andalus, to horse!
Mount your steeds and swiftly ride;
It were an erroneous course
Longer here to abide.

Garments ordinarily
By their fringes are divested;
Our imperial robe I see
From the middle wrested.



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