Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
America: Vols. XXV–XXIX. 1876–79. | | | | Middle States: Catskill Mountains, N. Y. | | Catskill | | Bayard Taylor (1825–1878) |
| | | HOW reel the wildered senses at the sight! | |
| How vast the boundless vision breaks in view! | |
| Nor thought, nor word, can well depict the scene; | |
| The din of toil comes faintly swelling up | |
| From green fields far below; and all around | 5 |
| The forest sea sends up its ceaseless roar | |
| Like to the ocean’s everlasting chime. | |
| Mountains on mountains in the distance rise, | |
| Like clouds along the far horizon’s verge; | |
| Their misty summits mingling with the sky, | 10 |
| Till earth and heaven seem blended into one. | |
| So far removed from toil and bustling care,— | |
| So far from earth, if heaven no nearer be, | |
| And gazing, as a spirit, from mid-air | |
| Upon the strife and tumult of the world, | 15 |
| Let me forget the cares I leave behind, | |
| And with an humble spirit, bow before | |
| The Maker of these everlasting hills. | | | | |
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