Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Switzerland and Austria: Vol. XVI. 1876–79. | | | | Switzerland: Interlachen | | A Memory of Interlachen | | Annie Adams Fields (1834–1915) |
| | | THERE is a light in darkness which the soul | |
| Can seldom know, until the sense have crept | |
| From height to height across the shadowless peaks | |
| Which sentinel thy valley; there are deeps | |
| In thy green hollows, where still thought could lie | 5 |
| Through summer noons unending, glad with dreams; | |
| There too are twilights, sudden-black with storm, | |
| When thunder speaks from the unapproachable hills, | |
| And earth shakes at the arrows of his light. | |
| Then have I heard a cithern’s tinkling sound, | 10 |
| And hollow bursts of laughter from the hall, | |
| While awful thunder shook the world again. | |
| Then have I seen pale clouds retreat before | |
| The glory of God’s coming, and soft night | |
| Die down in splendor on the voiceless Horn; | 15 |
| And while keen players bent above their board, | |
| Have watched the gold of distant stars appear | |
| Circling in music over yon white brows. | | | | |
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