Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Germany: Vols. XVII–XVIII. 1876–79. | | | | Black Forest, the (Schwarz-Wald) | | The Source of the Danube | | William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
| | | NOT, like his great compeers, indignantly | |
| Doth Danube spring to life! The wandering stream | |
| (Who loves the cross, yet to the crescent’s gleam | |
| Unfolds a willing breast) with infant glee | |
| Slips from his prison walls: and Fancy, free | 5 |
| To follow in his track of silver light, | |
| Reaches, with one brief moment’s rapid flight, | |
| The vast encincture of that gloomy sea | |
| Whose waves the Orphean lyre forbade to meet | |
| In conflict; whose rough winds forgot their jars | 10 |
| To waft the heroic progeny of Greece; | |
| When the first ship sailed for the golden fleece,— | |
| Argo,—exalted for that daring feat | |
| To fix in heaven her shape distinct with stars. | | | | |
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