Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
America: Vols. XXV–XXIX. 1876–79. | | | | New England: Cambridge, Mass. | | Mount Auburn | | Isaac McLellan (1806–1899) |
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SWEET Auburn! o’er thy rolling slopes | |
| The sparkling winter snows are spread; | |
| Fast, fast the feathery flakes descend | |
| O’er these calm dwellings of the dead; | |
| And evening with its thickening glooms, | 5 |
| Enshrouds the city of the tombs! | |
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| Yet ere the latest flame of day | |
| Along these devious walks shall fade, | |
| Let me across the breezy height | |
| Still press, and through each sombrous glade, | 10 |
| And commune with this silent crowd, | |
| In stony cell and swathing shroud. | |
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| Twilight enkindles with its blaze | |
| White columns, glimmering all around; | |
| High soaring obelisks, that throw | 15 |
| Their lengthening shadows o’er the ground; | |
| And tapering shafts, and gleaming urns | |
| Whereon day’s latest incense burns. * * * * * | | | | |
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