Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
America: Vols. XXV–XXIX. 1876–79. | | | | New England: White Mountains, N. H. | | Chocorua | | Lucy Larcom (1826–1893) |
| | | THE PIONEER of a great company | |
| That wait behind him, gazing toward the east,— | |
| Mighty ones all, down to the nameless least,— | |
| Though after him none dares to press, where he | |
| With bent head listens to the minstrelsy | 5 |
| Of far waves chanting to the moon, their priest. | |
| What phantom rises up from winds deceased? | |
| What whiteness of the unapproachable sea? | |
| Hoary Chocorua guards his mystery well: | |
| He pushes back his fellows, lest they hear | 10 |
| The haunting secret he apart must tell | |
| To his lone self, in the sky-silence clear. | |
| A shadowy, cloud-cloaked wraith, with shoulders bowed, | |
| He steals, conspicuous, from the mountain-crowd. | | | | |
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