Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and Holland: Vols. XIV–XV. 1876–79. | | | | Spain: Lugares | | Lugares | | Robert Southey (1774–1843) |
| | | ANOTHER mountain yet! I thought this brow | |
| Had surely been the summit; but they rise | |
| Hill above hill, amid the incumbent skies, | |
| And mock my labor. What a giddy height! | |
| The roar of yonder stream that foams below | 5 |
| Meets but at fits mine ear: ah me! my sight | |
| Shrinks from this upward toil, and, sore opprest, | |
| Sad I bethink me of my home of rest. | |
| Such is the lot of man. Up life’s steep road | |
| Painful he drags, beguiling the long way | 10 |
| With many a vain thought on the future day | |
| With Peace to sojourn in her calm abode. | |
| Poor fool of hope! that hour will never come | |
| Till time and care have led thee to the tomb. | | | | |
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