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Castilla by Tomás Borrás

I finished Purity of Blood yesterday. This is the frontspiece. I couldn’t find anything about it online so I’m not sure if it’s a poem or if this is the text in its entirety.

Castilla
By Tomás Borrás

Glory and honor blazoned on the quarters
of the escutcheon, hidalgos, poets, priests,
fabulous Americas, ladies-in-waiting.

galleys that apprehend the infidel,
gibbets by the roadside, adventures,
and swords flashing on every corner.