Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Switzerland and Austria: Vol. XVI. 1876–79.
Echo upon the Gemmi
By William Wordsworth (1770–1850)W
Stern Gemmi listens to as full a cry,
As multitudinous a harmony
Of sounds, as rang the heights of Latmos over,
When, from the soft couch of her sleeping lover,
Up-starting, Cynthia skimmed the mountain-dew
In keen pursuit, and gave, where’er she flew,
Impetuous motion to the stars above her.
A solitary wolf-dog, ranging on
Through the bleak concave, wakes this wondrous chime
Of aëry voices locked in unison,—
Faint, far-off, near, deep, solemn and sublime!
So from the body of one guilty deed
A thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed!