Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Scotland: Vols. VI–VIII. 1876–79. | | | | Ailsa Crag | | In the Frith of Clyde, Ailsa Crag | | William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
| | During an Eclipse of the Sun, July 17
SINCE risen from ocean, ocean to defy, | |
| Appeared the Crag of Ailsa, ne’er did morn | |
| With gleaming lights more gracefully adorn | |
| His sides, or wreathe with mist his forehead high: | |
| Now, faintly darkening with the sun’s eclipse, | 5 |
| Still is he seen, in lone sublimity, | |
| Towering above the sea and little ships; | |
| For dwarfs the tallest seem while sailing by, | |
| Each for her haven; with her freight of care, | |
| Pleasure, or grief, and toil that seldom looks | 10 |
| Into the secret of to-morrow’s fare; | |
| Though poor, yet rich, without the wealth of books, | |
| Or aught that watchful love to Nature owes | |
| For her mute powers, fixed forms, or transient shows. | | | | |
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