Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Americas: Vol. XXX. 1876–79. | | | | West Indies: Saint Christopher, the Island | | Saint Christopher | | James Grainger (1721?–1766) |
| | (From The Sugar-Cane)
SUCH, green Saint Christopher, thy happy soil!— | |
| Not Grecian Tempe, where Arcadian Pan, | |
| Knit with the Graces, tuned his sylvan pipe, | |
| While mute Attention hushed each charmèd rill; | |
| Not purple Enna, whose irriguous lap, | 5 |
| Strewed with each fruit of taste, each flower of smell, | |
| Sicilian Proserpine, delighted, sought, | |
| Can vie, blest isle, with thee. Though no soft sound | |
| Of pastoral stop thine echoes e’er awaked; | |
| Nor raptured poet, lost in holy trance, | 10 |
| Thy streams arrested with enchanting song: | |
| Yet virgins, far more beautiful than she | |
| Whom Pluto ravished, and more chaste, are thine: | |
| Yet probity, from principle, not fear, | |
| Actuates thy sons, bold, hospitable, free; | 15 |
| Yet a fertility, unknown of old, | |
| To other climes denied, adorns thy hills; | |
| Thy vales, thy dells adorns. | | | | |
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