Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
France: Vols. IX–X. 1876–79. | | | | Chartreuse, La Grande | | In the Valley of the Grande Chartreuse | | Francis Turner Palgrave (1824–1897) |
| | | TORRENT under lofty beeches, under larches cresting high; | |
| Wanderer by the wandering stranger slipping softly, surely by; | |
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| Born among Savoyan snows and where St. Bruno, hid with God, | |
| Far from kindly human love, the road of tears and rapture trod; | |
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| Joining then the valley-streamlet, then the golden-green Isère, | 5 |
| Then where Rhone’s broad current to the blue their lordly burden bear;— | |
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| Torrent under lofty beeches, under larches cresting high, | |
| Thou art southward set, and southward all thy waters strain and fly,— | |
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| Sunny South,—o’er slope and summit the gray mist of olive spread. | |
| Terrace high o’er terrace climbing, lines of white, vine-garlanded. | 10 |
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| Ah, another vision calls me, calls me to the Northern isle,— | |
| Voices from beyond the mountain, smiles that dim the sun’s own smile,— | |
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| And I set my soul against thee, water of the Southern sea: | |
| Thine are not the currents toward the haven where my heart would be. | | | | |
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