Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Switzerland and Austria: Vol. XVI. 1876–79.

Switzerland: Thun, the Lake

Memorial near the Outlet of the Lake of Thun

By William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

Aloys Reding, it will be remembered, was Captain-General of the Swiss forces, which, with a courage and perseverance worthy of the cause, opposed the flagitious and too successful attempt of Buonaparte to subjugate their country.

AROUND a wild and woody hill,

A gravelled pathway treading,

We reached a votive stone that bears

The name of Aloys Reding.

Well judged the friend who placed it there

For silence and protection;

And haply with a finer care

Of dutiful affection.

The sun regards it from the west;

And, while in summer glory

He sets, his sinking yields a type

Of that pathetic story:

And oft he tempts the patriot Swiss

Amid the grove to linger;

Till all is dim, save this bright stone

Touched by his golden finger.