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Guadarrama
Guadarrama, is it you, old friend,
Mountains white and gray
That I used to see painted against the blue
Those afternoons of the old days in Madrid?
Up your deep ravines
And past your bristling peaks
A thousand Guadarramas and a thousand suns
Come riding with me, riding to your heart.
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