Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Russia: Vol. XX. 1876–79. | | | | Crimea (Taurica Chersonesus) | | Florence Nightingale | | Sydney Dobell (1824–1874) |
| | | HOW must the soldier’s tearful heart expand, | |
| Who from a long and obscure dream of pain,— | |
| His foemen’s frown imprinted in his brain,— | |
| Wakes to thy healing face and dewy hand! | |
| When this great noise has rolled from off the land, | 5 |
| When all those fallen Englishmen of ours | |
| Have bloomed and faded in Crimean flowers, | |
| Thy perfect charity unsoiled shall stand. | |
| Some pitying student of a nobler age, | |
| Lingering o’er this year’s half-forgotten page, | 10 |
| Shall see its beauty smiling ever there! | |
| Surprised to tears his beating heart he stills, | |
| Like one who finds among Athenian hills | |
| A temple like a lily white and fair. | | | | |
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