Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and Holland: Vols. XIV–XV. 1876–79. | | | | Holland: Zutphen | | Sir Philip Sidney | | Charlotte Fiske Bates (1838–1916) |
| | | THE HEIGHT of Sidney’s deed upon this field | |
| Rises so high that all the world can see; | |
| Self-abnegating grace has here revealed | |
| How godlike in his suffering man may be. | |
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| What blessed immortality he quaffed, | 5 |
| When, all his parching agonies denied, | |
| From his own lips he sent the untouched draught | |
| To him who likewise languished at his side! | |
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| Arcadia’s beauty still is fresh to-day, | |
| And knightly fame that charmed the Virgin Queen, | 10 |
| But Zutphen lifts him higher still than they, | |
And gives his memory the brightest green!
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