Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Switzerland and Austria: Vol. XVI. 1876–79. | | | | Switzerland: Geneva, the Lake (Lake Leman) | | Midnight at Geneva | | Francis Turner Palgrave (1824–1897) |
| | | THE AZURE lake is argent now | |
| Beneath the pale moonshine: | |
| I seek a sign of hope in heaven: | |
| Fair Pole-star! thou art mine. | |
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| A thousand other beacons blaze, | 5 |
| I follow thee alone, | |
| Beyond the shadowy Jura range, | |
| The Jura and the Rhone; | |
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| Beyond the purpling vineyards trim | |
| Of sunny Clos Vougeot; | 10 |
| Beyond where Seine’s brown waves beneath | |
| The Norman orchards go; | |
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| Till, where the silver waters wash | |
| The white-walled northern isle, | |
| My heart outruns these laggart limbs | 15 |
| To the long-sighed-for smile. | | | | |
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