Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Scotland: Vols. VI–VIII. 1876–79. | | | | Loch Lomond | | Loch Lomond | | Andrew James Symington (1826–1898) |
| | (From A Summer Evening among the Mountains)
FULL-ORBED, | |
| In mild effulgence from the dim blue hills, | |
| The fair moon rises, shedding o’er the world | |
| A wild romantic beauty. On the lake | |
| Her yellow lustre glimmers, taking all | 5 |
| The gentle ripples by the pebbly marge; | |
| While rising terraces of dark-green trees | |
| Repose in silence, bronze-like, touched with gold; | |
| And island groups clothed to the water’s brink, | |
| Each mirrored double in the clear blue deep, | 10 |
| Seem even varying as we walk along. | |
| We mark rude bridges, torrents, mountain bourns, | |
| Lone paths into the woods, and through the leaves | |
| Steep cataracts dashing, in white silvery foam; | |
| The hushed air, fragrant with the tedded hay; | 15 |
| And dew-drops sparkling on each blade of grass. | | | | |
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