Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Scotland: Vols. VI–VIII. 1876–79. | | | | Mull, the Island | | In the Sound of Mull | | William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
| | | TRADITION, be thou mute! Oblivion, throw | |
| Thy veil in mercy o’er the records, hung | |
| Round strath and mountain, stamped by the ancient tongue | |
| On rock and ruin, darkening as we go,— | |
| Spots where a word, ghost-like, survives to show | 5 |
| What crimes from hate, or desperate love, have sprung; | |
| From honor misconceived, or fancied wrong, | |
| What feuds, not quenched but fed by mutual woe. | |
| Yet, though a wild, vindictive race, untamed | |
| By civil arts and labors of the pen, | 10 |
| Could gentleness be scorned by those fierce men, | |
| Who, to spread wide the reverence they claimed | |
| For patriarchal occupations, named | |
| Yon towering peaks, “Shepherds of Etive Glen”? | | | | |
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