Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Russia: Vol. XX. 1876–79. | | | | Lapland | | Lapland | | Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) |
| | (From The Destiny of Nations)
AS ere from Lieule-Oaive’s vapory head | |
| The Laplander beholds the far-off sun | |
| Dart his slant beam on unobeying snows, | |
| While yet the stern and solitary night | |
| Brooks no alternate sway, the Boreal Morn | 5 |
| With mimic lustre substitutes its gleam, | |
| Guiding his course or by Niemi Lake | |
| Or Balda Zhiok, or the mossy stone | |
| Of Solfar-kapper, while the snowy blast | |
| Drifts arrowy by, or eddies round his sledge, | 10 |
| Making the poor babe at its mother’s back | |
| Scream in its scanty cradle; he the while | |
| Wins gentle solace as with upward eye | |
| He marks the streamy banners of the north, | |
| Thinking himself those happy spirits shall join | 15 |
| Who there in floating robes of rosy light | |
| Dance sportively. | | | | |
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