Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Germany: Vols. XVII–XVIII. 1876–79. | | | | Sonnenberg | | Impromptu | | Frances Anne Kemble (1809–1893) |
| | Written among the Ruins of the Sonnenberg
THOU who within thyself dost not behold | |
| Ruins as great as these, though not as old, | |
| Canst scarce through life have travelled many a year, | |
| Or lack’st the spirit of a pilgrim here. | |
| Youth hath its walls of strength, its towers of pride, | 5 |
| Love, its warm hearth-stones, hope, its prospects wide, | |
| Life’s fortress in thee, held these, one and all, | |
| As they have fallen to ruin, or shall fall. | | | | |
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