Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Germany: Vols. XVII–XVIII. 1876–79. | | | | Appendix: Walchen See | | Sonnet | | Richard Chenevix Trench (1807–1886) |
| | Written in a Pass of Bavaria between the Walchen and the Walden See
“His voice was as the sound of many waters.” |
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A SOUND of many waters!—now I know | |
| To what was likened the large utterance sent | |
| By Him who mid the golden lampads went: | |
| Innumerable streams, above, below, | |
| Some seen, some heard alone, with headlong flow | 5 |
| Come rushing; some with smooth and sheer descent, | |
| Some dashed to foam and whiteness, but all blent | |
| Into one mighty music. As I go, | |
| The tumult of a boundless gladness fills | |
| My bosom, and my spirit leaps and sings; | 10 |
| Sounds and sights are there of the ancient hills, | |
| The eagle’s cry, or when the mountain flings | |
| Mists from its brow, but none of all these things | |
| Like the one voice of multitudinous rills. | | | |
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