Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Asia: Vols. XXI–XXIII. 1876–79. | | | | India: Himalaya, the Mountains | | Himalaya | | John Bruce Norton (1815–1883) |
| | | A WANDERER once upon the snowy range | |
| Of Himalaya, on one vapory morn, | |
| I saw stand on a peak, rugged and torn, | |
| A giant figure, vast and dim and strange, | |
| As is the Brocken Spectre: what a change | 5 |
| Came o’er my vision, when the sun had shorn | |
| The mists away, and I, much nearer borne, | |
| Beheld the golden lights and clouds arrange | |
| Their glory round no Spirit, but a man: | |
| New hopes beat down and banished false alarms; | 10 |
| I longed for converse in that lonely place: | |
| Toward my fellow-creature swift I ran: | |
| My heart leaped up when I beheld his face; | |
| And lo! I clasped my brother in my arms. | | | | |
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