Crossword-Solution: CANCION 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Miguel Sanchez is the author of a beautiful _Cancion de Cristo Crucificado_, a poem which, though not published till 1605 with the real writer's name attached to it, has constantly been ascribed to Luis de Leon.[274] The _Cancion_ is no doubt a composition of great charm and mystic unction; but it lacks the concentrated force of Luis de Leon.

The troopers gathered round us, with that odd mixture of familiarity and respect which belongs to all the lower ranks of Spain; and the performer evidently acquired new spirits from the laughter of his audience, as he dashingly sang his burlesque:-- Cancion.

From Lookout Point it was a majestic spectacle, the high cliffs, the silvery river gliding noiselessly out from its black cañon, the white masses of sheep, clustering on either side of the water--and as the work went ahead merrily the Mexicans, their naked bodies gleaming like polished bronze in the ardent sun, broke into a wild refrain, a love song, perhaps, or a _cancion_ of old Mexico.

Among hecatombs of epics and lyrics, the heroic poem of Ercilla[347] and the sublime _cancion_ of Fernando de Herrera perpetuate the memory of the victory of Lepanto in forms more durable than canvas or marble--as imperishable as the language itself.

Hita gives a _cancion_ in his work, the burden of which is a complaint that the mountaineers had made their attack too late instead of too early:-- "Pocos sois, y venís tarde." (Guerras de Granada, tom.