Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
France: Vols. IX–X. 1876–79. | | | | Savoy: Mont Blanc | | To a Flower on the Skirts of Mont Blanc | | Aubrey Thomas de Vere (1814–1902) |
| | | WITH heart not yet half rested from Mont Blanc, | |
| O’er thee, small flower, my wearied eyes I bent, | |
| And rested on that humbler vision long. | |
| Is there less beauty in thy purple tent | |
| Outspread, perchance a boundless firmament | 5 |
| O’er viewless myriads which beneath thee throng, | |
| Than in that mount whose sides, with ruin hung, | |
| Frown o’er black glens and gorges thunder-rent? | |
| Is there less mystery? Wisely if we ponder, | |
| Thine is the mightier marvel. Life in thee | 10 |
| Is strong as in cherubic wings that wander, | |
| Seeking the limits of Infinity;— | |
| Life, life to be transmitted, not to expire | |
| Till yonder snowy vault shall melt in the last fire! | | | | |
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