Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Switzerland and Austria: Vol. XVI. 1876–79. | | | | Introductory to Switzerland | | Beyond | | Rose Terry Cooke (1827–1892) |
| | | THE STRANGER wandering in the Switzer’s land, | |
| Before its awful mountain-tops afraid,— | |
| Who yet, with patient toil, hath gained his stand | |
| On the bare summit where all life is stayed; | |
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| Sees far, far down, beneath his blood-dimmed eyes, | 5 |
| Another country, golden to the shore, | |
| Where a new passion and new hopes arise, | |
| Where Southern blooms unfold forevermore. | |
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| And I, lone sitting by the twilight blaze, | |
| Think of another wanderer in the snows, | 10 |
| And on more perilous mountain-tops I gaze | |
| Than ever frowned above the vine and rose. | |
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| Yet courage, soul! nor hold thy strength in vain, | |
| In hope o’ercome the steeps God set for thee, | |
| For past the Alpine summits of great pain | 15 |
| Lieth thine Italy. | | | | |
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