| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882). Complete Poetical Works. 1893. | | | | Appendix | II. Unacknowledged and Uncollected Translations.
Art and Nature |
| | By Francisco de Medrano
THE WORKS of human artifice soon tire | |
| The curious eye; the fountain’s sparkling rill, | |
| And gardens, when adorned by human skill, | |
| Reproach the feeble hand, the vain desire. | |
| But oh! the free and wild magnificence | 5 |
| Of Nature, in her lavish hours, doth steal, | |
| In admiration silent and intense, | |
| The soul of him who hath a soul to feel. | |
| The river moving on its ceaseless way, | |
| The verdant reach of meadows fair and green, | 10 |
| And the blue hills, that bound the sylvan scene, | |
| These speak of grandeur, that defies decay,— | |
| Proclaim the Eternal Architect on high, | |
| Who stamps on all his works his own eternity. | | | | |
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