English Poetry II: From Collins to Fitzgerald.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
William Wordsworth
402. England and Switzerland
[1802]T
One of the Mountains, each a mighty voice:
In both from age to age thou didst rejoice,
They were thy chosen music, Liberty!
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.
Then cleave, O cleave to that which still is left—
For high-soul’d Maid, what sorrow would it be
And Ocean bellow from his rocky shore,
And neither awful Voice be heard by Thee!