Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Switzerland and Austria: Vol. XVI. 1876–79. | | | | Austria: Salona, Dalmatia | | Salona | | Abraham Cowley (1618–1667) |
| | (From The Garden)
METHINKS I see great Dioclesian walk | |
| In the Salonian garden’s noble shade, | |
| Which by his own imperial hands was made; | |
| I see him smile, methinks, as he does talk | |
| With the ambassadors, who come in vain | 5 |
| To entice him to a throne again. | |
| “If I, my friends!” said he, “should to you show | |
| All the delights which in these gardens grow, | |
| ’T is likelier much that you should with me stay | |
| Than ’t is that you should carry me away; | 10 |
| And trust me not, my friends! if every day | |
| I walk not here with more delight | |
| Than ever, after the most happy sight, | |
| In triumph to the Capitol I rode, | |
| To thank the gods, and to be thought myself almost a god.” | 15 | | | |
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