Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
France: Vols. IX–X. 1876–79. | | | | Paris | | The Théâtre Français | | Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) |
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IN Paris all looked hot and like to fade; | |
| Brown, in the garden of the Tuileries, | |
| Brown with September, drooped the chestnut-trees. | |
| ’T was dawn; a brougham rolled through the streets, and made | |
| Halt at the white and silent colonnade | 5 |
| Of the French Theatre. Worn with disease, | |
| Rachel, with eyes no gazing can appease, | |
| Sate in the brougham, and those blank walls surveyed. | |
| She follows the gay world, whose swarms have fled | |
| To Switzerland, to Baden, to the Rhine; | 10 |
| Why stops she by this empty play-house drear? | |
| Ah, where the spirit its highest life hath led, | |
| All spots, matched with that spot, are less divine; | |
| And Rachel’s Switzerland, her Rhine, is here! | | | | |
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