Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
France: Vols. IX–X. 1876–79. | | | | Savoy: Chamouni (Chamonix), the Valley | | Chamouny | | William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
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LAST, let us turn to Chamouny, that shields | |
| With rocks and gloomy woods her fertile fields: | |
| Five streams of ice amid her cots descend, | |
| And with wild-flowers and blooming orchards blend,— | |
| A scene more fair than what the Grecian feigns | 5 |
| Of purple lights and ever-vernal plains; | |
| Here all the seasons revel hand in hand; | |
| Mid lawns and shades by breezy rivulets fanned, | |
| They sport beneath that mountain’s matchless height | |
| That holds no commerce with the summer night. | 10 |
| From age to age, throughout his lonely bounds | |
| The crash of ruin fitfully resounds; | |
| Appalling havoc! but serene his brow, | |
| Where daylight lingers on perpetual snow; | |
| Glitter the stars above, and all is black below. | 15 | | | |
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