Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Scotland: Vols. VI–VIII. 1876–79. | | | | Sweden: Lapmark | | Love-Song of a Laplander | | Ewald Christian von Kleist (1715–1759) |
| | Translated by Charles Timothy Brooks
COME, Zama, come, nor longer scorn thy lover, | |
| Queen of the fair; | |
| O, come, or soon the snows of age shall cover | |
| My wasting hair. | |
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| Vain is thy flight, for Love hath wings more fleeting | 5 |
| Than fleetest steed; | |
| Nor driving snow nor hail-storm, fiercely beating, | |
| Shall stay my speed. | |
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| I ’ll stem the stream where wintry waves roll deepest, | |
| To come to thee; | 10 |
| I ’ll climb the crag where mountain walls rise steepest, | |
| Thy form to see. | |
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| No gloomy glen within its depths shall hide thee, | |
| Nor tangled shade; | |
| Through brier and bog I ’ll follow close beside thee, | 15 |
| Coy Lapland maid. | |
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| And shouldst thou still, shy maiden, fly before me | |
| Far o’er the sea, | |
| I ’ll stand by Greenland’s breakers, hoarse and hoary, | |
| And cry to thee. | 20 |
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| The long, long night is near; my heart is yearning, | |
| Sweet love, for thine. | |
| My light, I see thee even now returning;— | |
| What joy is mine! | | | | |
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