Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Scotland: Vols. VI–VIII. 1876–79. | | | | Dunmore | | Dunmore | | George Gilfillan (1813–1878) |
| | (From Night)
I LIE, in vision, on thy top, Dunmore,— | |
| Dearest to me of all old Scotland’s hills,— | |
| And see not the well-known delicious view, | |
| The little village with its peaceful spire, | |
| The rivers three, piercing the plain and woods, | 5 |
| To meet and marry at yon simple bridge; | |
| Abruchill Castle, like a silver spot | |
| Spilt by the sun among the night-like hills, | |
| And, shining there in light unquenchable, | |
| The gorge of terror where a fiend inclosed | 10 |
| In “hell of waters” howls forevermore, | |
| Amid thick woods and torture-riven chasms; | |
| Glenlednick’s deep and solitary glen | |
| Returning ever a wild torrent’s voice, | |
| Protesting ’gainst the Caldron’s agony, | 15 |
| To which resistlessly ’t is hurried on; | |
| The long-loved vale through which Kilmeny went | |
| Alone, through flowery heath and feathered birch, | |
| To meet the visions of celestial day. | |
| Loch Earn seen scarcely at the utmost edge, | 20 |
| Like a blue breach amidst the clouds of eve, | |
| And over it, at twilight, huge Benmore, | |
| A purple pillar propping the red sky. | | | | |
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