Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
France: Vols. IX–X. 1876–79. | | | | La Quenille (La Queille) | | A Modern Pilgrimage | | Arthur Hugh Clough (1819–1861) |
| | (From My Tale)
I WAITED at La Quenille, ten miles or more | |
| From the old Roman sources of Mont Dore; | |
| Travellers to Tulle this way are forced to go, | |
| An old high-road from Lyons to Bordeaux. | |
| From Tulle to Brives the swift Corrèze descends, | 5 |
| At Brives you ’ve railway, and your trouble ends. | |
| A little bourg La Quenille: and from the height | |
| The mountains of Auvergne are all in sight,— | |
| Green pastoral heights, that once in lava flowed, | |
| Of primal fire the product and abode,— | 10 |
| And all the plateaus, and the lines that trace | |
| Where in deep dells the waters find their place. | |
| Far to the south, above the lofty plain, | |
| The Plomb de Cantal lifts his towering train. | | | | |
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