Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Switzerland and Austria: Vol. XVI. 1876–79. | | | | Austria: Moldava, the River | | The River Moldava | | James Gates Percival (1795–1856) |
| | (From Slavonia)
BY Muldava trips a rose-lipped maiden,— | |
| She has crowned her hat with summer flowers; | |
| Fresh and dewy as the fabled Hours, | |
| There she trips along, with blossoms laden. | |
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| How the valley with her voice is ringing, | 5 |
| Like the evening songster’s, soft and clear! | |
| In her happy eye a sparkling tear; | |
| She a simple Cheskian lay is singing. | |
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| O, how strong the love of country glows | |
| In the peasant’s heart, when all is gone, | 10 |
| King and state, his language left alone, | |
| Blooming still, as over graves the rose. | |
| From his bosom pours the stream of song, | |
| Full, in artless melody, along. | | | | |
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