Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Switzerland and Austria: Vol. XVI. 1876–79. | | | | Switzerland: Zurich, the Lake | | On the Lake | | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) |
| | Translated by J. S. Dwight
MY blood flows fresh, my soul finds food, | |
| I roam the world at large; | |
| And Nature,—smiles she not most good? | |
| She holds my heart in charge. | |
| The wavelets lift our little boat, | 5 |
| With the oars, in measured beat, | |
| And hills, piled cloudlike, hither float | |
| Our bounding bark to meet. | |
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| Eye, mine eye, why art thou sinking? | |
| Of those dreams must still be thinking? | 10 |
| Go, Dream! golden as thou art; | |
| Here, too, love and life have part. | |
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| Under the wave fly, blinking, | |
| Shoals of stars, as I ponder; | |
| Flocks of clouds hang drinking | 15 |
| Round the hills away yonder; | |
| Morning wind is dancing | |
| O’er the shadowy cove, | |
| From the lake come glancing | |
| Fruits half hid in the grove. | 20 | | | |
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