Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Switzerland and Austria: Vol. XVI. 1876–79. | | | | Switzerland: Alps, The | | The Alps at Daybreak | | Samuel Rogers (1763–1855) |
| | | THE SUNBEAMS streak the azure skies, | |
| And line with light the mountain’s brow: | |
| With hounds and horns the hunters rise, | |
| And chase the roebuck through the snow. | |
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| From rock to rock, with giant bound, | 5 |
| High on their iron poles they pass; | |
| Mute, lest the air, convulsed by sound, | |
| Rend from above a frozen mass. | |
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| The goats wind slow their wonted way, | |
| Up craggy steeps and ridges rude; | 10 |
| Marked by the wild wolf for his prey, | |
| From desert cave or hanging wood. | |
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| And while the torrent thunders loud, | |
| And as the echoing cliffs reply, | |
| The huts peep o’er the morning-cloud, | 15 |
| Perched, like an eagle’s nest, on high. | | | | |
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