Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
France: Vols. IX–X. 1876–79. | | | | Ermenonville | | For the Cenotaph at Ermenonville | | Robert Southey (1774–1843) |
| | | STRANGER! the man of nature lies not here: | |
| Enshrined far distant by the scoffer’s side | |
| His relics rest, there by the giddy throng | |
| With blind idolatry alike revered. | |
| Wiselier directed hare thy pilgrim feet | 5 |
| Explored the scenes of Ermenonville. Rousseau | |
| Loved these calm haunts of solitude and peace; | |
| Here he has heard the murmurs of the lake, | |
| And the soft rustling of the poplar grove | |
| When o’er its bending boughs the passing wind | 10 |
| Swept a gray shade. Here, if thy breast be full, | |
| If in thine eye the tear devout should gush, | |
| His spirit shall behold thee, to thine home | |
| From hence returning, purified of heart. | | | | |
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