Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Scotland: Vols. VI–VIII. 1876–79. | | | | Loch Ranza | | Loch Ranza | | Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) |
| | (From The Lord of the Isles)
NOW launched once more, the inland sea | |
| They furrow with fair augury, | |
| And steer for Arran’s isle; | |
| The sun, ere yet he sunk behind | |
| Ben-ghoil, “the Mountain of the Wind,” | 5 |
| Gave his grim peaks a greeting kind, | |
| And bade Loch Ranza smile. | |
| Thither their destined course they drew; | |
| It seemed the isle her monarch knew, | |
| So brilliant was the landward view, | 10 |
| The ocean so serene; | |
| Each puny wave in diamonds rolled | |
| O’er the calm deep, where hues of gold | |
| With azure strove and green. | |
| The hill, the vale, the tree, the tower, | 15 |
| Glowed with the tints of evening’s hour, | |
| The beech was silver sheen, | |
| The wind breathed soft as lover’s sigh, | |
| And, oft renewed, seemed oft to die, | |
| With breathless pause between. | 20 |
| O who, with speech of war and woes, | |
| Would wish to break the soft repose | |
| Of such enchanting scene! | | | | |
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