Memorial near the Outlet of the Lake of Thun. William Wordsworth (1770-1850). Switzerland: Thun, the Lake. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. 1876-79. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes. Switzerland and Austria: Vol. XVI

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Switzerland and Austria: Vol. XVI. 1876–79.

Switzerland: Thun, the Lake

Memorial near the Outlet of the Lake of Thun

William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

Aloys Reding, it will be remembered, was Captain-General of the Swiss forces, which, with a courage and perseverance worthy of the cause, opposed the flagitious and too successful attempt of Buonaparte to subjugate their country.

AROUND a wild and woody hill,
A gravelled pathway treading,
We reached a votive stone that bears
The name of Aloys Reding.

Well judged the friend who placed it there	5
For silence and protection;
And haply with a finer care
Of dutiful affection.

The sun regards it from the west;
And, while in summer glory	10
He sets, his sinking yields a type
Of that pathetic story:

And oft he tempts the patriot Swiss
Amid the grove to linger;
Till all is dim, save this bright stone	15
Touched by his golden finger.

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