Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Switzerland and Austria: Vol. XVI. 1876–79. | | | | Switzerland: Zurich, the Lake | | On the Lake of Zurich | | James Cochrane |
| | | RICHMOND, dost thou remember Rapperschwyl, | |
| And the sweet banks of Zurich’s lovely lake, | |
| As on its bridge we leisurely ’gan wheel; | |
| And how you trembled when you felt it shake; | |
| How the old tower sent forth a merry peal, | 5 |
| Making the mountain echoes all awake? | |
| And how the garden we could not forsake, | |
| Till the moon rose night’s glory to reveal? | |
| Methinks even now I see the tiny tower, | |
| With its mile-long unparapetted bridge, | 10 |
| And in the lake, a thousand fathoms down, | |
| Enshrined, reversed, its emerald mountain-ridge, | |
| And feel that earth has still an Eden left, | |
| Nor is of Eden feelings all bereft. | | | | |
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