Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Asia: Vols. XXI–XXIII. 1876–79. | | | | India: Cashmere | | The Fountain of Chindara | | Thomas Moore (1779–1852) |
| | (From Lalla Rookh)
FROM Chindara’s warbling fount I come, | |
| Called by that moonlight garland’s spell; | |
| From Chindara’s fount, my fairy home, | |
| Where in music, morn and night, I dwell. | |
| Where lutes in the air are heard about, | 5 |
| And voices are singing the whole day long, | |
| And every sigh the heart breathes out | |
| Is turned, as it leaves the lips, to song! | |
| Hither I come | |
| From my fairy home, | 10 |
| And if there ’s a magic in music’s strain, | |
| I swear by the breath | |
| Of that moonlight wreath, | |
| Thy lover shall sigh at thy feet again. | | | | |
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