Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Scotland: Vols. VI–VIII. 1876–79. | | | | Ben Lomond | | Ben Lomond | | Thomas Campbell (1777–1844) |
| | | HADST thou a genius on thy peak, | |
| What tales, white-headed Ben, | |
| Couldst thou of ancient ages speak, | |
| That mock the historian’s pen! | |
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| Thy long duration makes our lives | 5 |
| Seem but so many hours; | |
| And likens to the bees’ frail hives | |
| Our most stupendous towers. | |
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| Temples and towers thou ’st seen begun, | |
| New creeds, new conquerors’ sway; | 10 |
| And, like their shadows in the sun, | |
| Hast seen them swept away. | |
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| Thy steadfast summit, heaven-allied, | |
| Unlike life’s little span, | |
| Looks down, a Mentor on the pride | 15 |
| Of perishable man. | | | | |
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