Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Scotland: Vols. VI–VIII. 1876–79.
Ben Lomond
By John MitchellS
By limpid streamlets fringed with flowers,
But give to me the wilds where towers
Thy rocky crest, Ben Lomond.
To sing the joys of rosy May,
But bolder tones must fire his lay
Whose theme ’s the proud Ben Lomond.
Red lightnings play around thy crest,
And storm runs riot on thy breast,
Thou heed’st them not, Ben Lomond.
And balmy winds steal o’er our clime,
Who would not dare thy heights sublime
And glory in Ben Lomond!
With wonder filled will lean on thee,
Awed by the gorgeous scenery
That round thee spreads, Ben Lomond.
Veiled in the vast profundity
That stills or wakes the inland sea
That bathes thy feet, Ben Lomond.