Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and Holland: Vols. XIV–XV. 1876–79. | | | | Holland: Hoorn | | The Ships of Hoorn | | Joost van den Vondel (1587–1679) |
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Translated by Annie Wood
TO heroes Hoorn has given birth, | |
| And gallant souls to man her fleets; | |
| The produce of her faithful earth | |
| In distant lands a market meets. | |
| Where’er the moon on far-off lands | 5 |
| Her silvery light benignly sheds, | |
| There, countless as the yellow sands, | |
| The ships of Hoorn her commerce spreads. | | | | |
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