Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Switzerland and Austria: Vol. XVI. 1876–79. | | | | Switzerland: Gemmi, the Mountain | | Echo upon the Gemmi | | William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
| | | WHAT beast of chase hath broken from the cover? | |
| Stern Gemmi listens to as full a cry, | |
| As multitudinous a harmony | |
| Of sounds, as rang the heights of Latmos over, | |
| When, from the soft couch of her sleeping lover, | 5 |
| Up-starting, Cynthia skimmed the mountain-dew | |
| In keen pursuit, and gave, where’er she flew, | |
| Impetuous motion to the stars above her. | |
| A solitary wolf-dog, ranging on | |
| Through the bleak concave, wakes this wondrous chime | 10 |
| Of aëry voices locked in unison,— | |
| Faint, far-off, near, deep, solemn and sublime! | |
| So from the body of one guilty deed | |
| A thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed! | | | | |
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