Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Switzerland and Austria: Vol. XVI. 1876–79. | | | | Introductory to Switzerland | | On the Subjugation of Switzerland | | William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
| | | TWO voices are there: one is of the sea, | |
| One of the mountains; each a mighty voice: | |
| In both from age to age thou didst rejoice, | |
| They were thy chosen music, Liberty! | |
| There came a tyrant, and with holy glee | 5 |
| Thou fought’st against him; but hast vainly striven: | |
| Thou from thy Alpine holds at length art driven, | |
| Where not a torrent murmurs heard by thee. | |
| Of one deep bliss thine ear hath been bereft: | |
| Then cleave, O, cleave to that which still is left; | 10 |
| For, high-souled maid, what sorrow would it be | |
| That mountain floods should thunder as before, | |
| And ocean bellow from his rocky shore, | |
| And neither awful voice be heard by thee! | | | | |
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