Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Switzerland and Austria: Vol. XVI. 1876–79. | | | | Switzerland: Rhine, the River | | The Brook Rhine | | Augusta Webster (1837–1894) |
| | | SMALL current of the wilds afar from men, | |
| Changing and sudden as a baby’s mood; | |
| Now a green babbling rivulet in the wood, | |
| Now loitering broad and shallow through the glen, | |
| Or threading mid the naked shoals, and then | 5 |
| Battling against the stones, half mist, half flood, | |
| Betwixt the mountains where the storm-clouds brood; | |
| And each change but to wake or sleep again; | |
| Pass on, young stream, the world has need of thee: | |
| Far hence a mighty river on its breast | 10 |
| Bears the deep-laden vessels to the sea, | |
| Far hence wide waters feed the vines and corn: | |
| Pass on, small stream, to so great purpose born, | |
| On to the distant toil, the distant rest. | | | | |
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