Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Switzerland and Austria: Vol. XVI. 1876–79. | | | | Switzerland: Stanz | | Stanz | | James Montgomery (1771–1854) |
| | (From The Wanderer of Switzerland)
NATURE’S bulwarks, built by Time, | |
| ’Gainst Eternity to stand, | |
| Mountains terribly sublime, | |
| Girt the camp on either hand. | |
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| Dim, behind, the valley brake | 5 |
| Into rocks that fled from view; | |
| Fair in front the gleaming lake | |
| Rolled its waters bright and blue. | |
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| Midst the hamlets of the dale, | |
| Stanz, with simple grandeur crowned, | 10 |
| Seemed the mother of the vale, | |
| With her children scattered round. | | | | |
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