Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Switzerland and Austria: Vol. XVI. 1876–79. | | | | Switzerland: Lausanne | | Gibbon | | William Lisle Bowles (1762–1850) |
| | (From The Sorrows of Switzerland)
THOU too, whilst pondering History’s vast plan, | |
| Didst sit by the clear waters of Lausanne, | |
| (What time Imperial Rome rose to thy view, | |
| And thy bold hand her mighty image drew); | |
| Thou too, methinks, as the sad wrecks extend, | 5 |
| Dost seem in sorrow o’er the scene to bend. | |
| With steady eye and penetrating mind | |
| Thou hast surveyed the toil of human kind; | |
| Hast marked Ambition’s march and fiery car, | |
| And thousands shouting in the fields of war. | 10 |
| But direr woes might ne’er a sigh demand, | |
| Than those of hapless, injured Switzerland! | | | | |
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