Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Germany: Vols. XVII–XVIII. 1876–79. | | | | Black Forest, the (Schwarz-Wald) | | On the Danube near Its Source | | James Cochrane |
| | | AS one who gazes on a child whose look | |
| Betokens promise, and whose bright career | |
| Is seen without or augury or seer, | |
| Even so I gaze upon this little brook, | |
| Wimpling away from its sequestered nook; | 5 |
| And view the river as he rolls along, | |
| Through lands embalmed in history and song; | |
| Where peaceful now the reaper plies his hook. | |
| I see the hero Sobieski come, | |
| To quell the host that threatened Christendom: | 10 |
| The Roman and the Greek methinks I see; | |
| The fiery Hun, the Dacian, vainly bold; | |
| The barbarous Cossack and fierce Osmanli: | |
| Yes, for it is the Danube I behold! | | | | |
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