Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
France: Vols. IX–X. 1876–79.
In the Valley of the Grande Chartreuse
By Francis Turner Palgrave (18241897)T
Wanderer by the wandering stranger slipping softly, surely by;
Far from kindly human love, the road of tears and rapture trod;
Then where Rhone’s broad current to the blue their lordly burden bear;—
Thou art southward set, and southward all thy waters strain and fly,—
Terrace high o’er terrace climbing, lines of white, vine-garlanded.
Voices from beyond the mountain, smiles that dim the sun’s own smile,—
Thine are not the currents toward the haven where my heart would be.