Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Scotland: Vols. VI–VIII. 1876–79. | | | | Ben Nevis | | Ben Nevis | | John Keats (1795–1821) |
| | | READ me a lesson, Muse, and speak it loud | |
| Upon the top of Nevis, blind in mist! | |
| I look into the chasms, and a shroud | |
| Vaporous doth hide them,—just so much I wist | |
| Mankind do know of hell; I look o’erhead, | 5 |
| And there is sullen mist,—even so much | |
| Mankind can tell of heaven; mist is spread | |
| Before the earth, beneath me,—even such, | |
| Even so vague is man’s sight of himself! | |
| Here are the craggy stones beneath my feet,— | 10 |
| Thus much I know that, a poor witless elf, | |
| I tread on them,—that all my eye doth meet | |
| Is mist and crag, not only on this height, | |
| But in the world of thought and mental might! | | | | |
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