Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes. Americas: Vol. XXX. 187679. | | South America: Andes, the Mountains | The Andes | William Lisle Bowles (17621850) |
| (From The Spirit of Discovery by Sea) BEYOND the misty main | |
The weary eye scarce wanders, when behold | |
Plata, through vaster territory poured; | |
And Andes, sweeping the horizons tract, | |
Mightiest of mountains! whose eternal snows | 5 |
Feel not the nearer sun; whose umbrage chills | |
The murmuring ocean; whose volcanic fires | |
A thousand nations view, hung like the moon | |
High in the middle waste of heaven; thy range, | |
Shading far off the Southern hemisphere, | 10 |
A dusky file Titanic. | | | |
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