Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Russia: Vol. XX. 1876–79. | | | | Asiatic Russia: Caucasus, the Mountains | | The Caucasus Mountains | | Lord Byron (1788–1824) |
| | (From Heaven and Earth)
YE wilds, that look eternal; and thou cave, | |
| Which seem’st unfathomable; and ye mountains, | |
| So varied and so terrible in beauty; | |
| Here, in your rugged majesty of rocks | |
| And topling trees that twine their roots with stone | 5 |
| In perpendicular places, where the foot | |
| Of man would tremble, could he reach them—yes, | |
| Ye look eternal! Yet, in a few days, | |
| Perhaps even hours, ye will be changed, rent, hurled | |
| Before the mass of waters; and yon cave, | 10 |
| Which seems to lead into a lower world, | |
| Shall have its depths searched by the sweeping wave, | |
| And dolphins gambol in the lion’s den! | | | | |
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