Creative Souls Challenge Poem #14

"My Castle in Spain"

by: Nixon Waterman

My castle in Spain, is a place of delight,

Where I joyfully wander at morning and night;

Of all life's high pleasure the happiest hours

Are those I devote to its fountains and flowers.

Whenever my mind in a reverie swings,

Hope bears me away on her jubilant wings.

To leave me, forgetful of care and of pain,

A fortunate prince at my castle in Spain.

My castle in Spain, oh, its caskets of gold,

Of rubies and pearls, are a joy to behold;

And riches for which I must ever despair

In this workaday world, are awaiting me there.

Fond favors of fortune, that brighten and bless,

Drop down in my hands with the softess caress,

And I wish, with a sigh, I might ever remain

At my marvelous, far-away castle in Spain.

My castle in Spain is as light as the air,

For its walls are a dream and its roof is a prayer;

Its courts and its halls of such wonderful scope

I have gorgeously gemmed with the treasures of hope.

Its domes and its tapering spires are wrought

Of the mystical beauty that hides in a thought;

And to view them sweet fancy steals into my brain,

Where it sees, through a vision, my castle in Spain.