Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Ireland: Vol. V. 1876–79. | | | | Baltard | | Nemesis | | Aubrey Thomas de Vere (1814–1902) |
| | | I DREAMED. Great bells around me pealed; | |
| The world in that sad chime was drowned; | |
| Sharp cries as from a battle-field | |
| Were strangled in the wondrous sound: | |
| Had all the kings of earth lain dead, | 5 |
| Had nations borne them lapped in lead | |
| To torch-lit vaults with plume and pall, | |
| Such bells had served for funeral. | |
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| ’T was fantasy’s dark work! I slept | |
| Where black Baltard o’erlooks the deep; | 10 |
| Plunging all night the billows kept | |
| Their ghostly vigil round my sleep. | |
| But I had fed on tragic lore | |
| That day,—your annals, “Masters Four!” | |
| And every moan of wind and sea | 15 |
| Was as a funeral chime to me. | | | | |
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